I have moved to Kagi as my search engine, although 99.99..% of people will probably never pay for search. Anecdotally, whenever I'm not finding what I need on Kagi and fallback to Google (less than once per week), it's shocking what a disaster the UX of Google's products have become (Maps is an even bigger offender than Search, where seemingly arbitrarily labeled places get more visibility than the search results).

What do you use instead of Google Maps? I don't know enough about alternatives to choose one.

What's even the google hate? the company is great and provides value. Why go into the rabbit hole of worse products?

Reread GP, Google maps has gotten atrocious with highlighting random spots above your search. That's not hate, it's observable fact.

First time on HN? Welcome.

I don't hate on Google, but the user highlighted some feature on Google Maps that are not desirable, and clearly knows more about map apps than me, so why not ask him what he uses? Google provides great value, I agree, but sometimes there's better stuff out there.

Apple Maps has better satellite images, and since about a year is often better at navigating.

Google maps trumps with pois

I'll admit that despite having a GPT4 sub which I use often, I still fallback on google for quick questions and verification of what GPT4 says if I need to be certain.

Not even because I am particularly going to google, it's just so heavily integrated.

I find GPT4 requires long queries to get much out. And I can't be bothered typing out a long query if Google can give me the same in 3 words and scanning down the result page.

you will like perplexity pro then?

Or Kagi, which is essentially LLM + citation links (with the '?' suffix)