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TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash
Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Sunday August 27 2017, @01:54AM (2 children)
Yes and no. Google either knows me or is a lot better at tech type searches. I try the duck first but if it is a tech type search I almost always end up dropping the menu and submitting the same search to Google and getting useful results.
Used to use Google for everything. No reason not to, they seemed to take their "No Evil" policy serious, they only hired the biggest brains and their results was the best that the best could generate so if it couldn't find it nobody else was going to do better. Then they started showing disturbing signs of Evil, they seemed to be staffing up with SJWs instead of Talosians and suddenly they were manually jacking with search results, selectively "demonitizing" and banning... in short they were clearly and unashamedly Evil.
Their tech is no longer trustworthy. Just came off a roadtrip where I tried using Google Maps as the primary navigator as an experiment. Me & the Mrs. took to calling it the Evil Psycho Bitch after the first few times it would suddenly blurt out an instruction to "make a U-Turn in 1000 ft" while zooming down the Interstate or similar zaniness that would result in a "bad outcome" if obeyed. Then a few minutes later it would correctly call the right exit. Or just "Google Maps has stopped responding. [wait] [stop]"
Good paper maps are getting hard to find. Meh. If you review the route on the screen before you begin the turn by turn navigation you can avoid most of the insanity by recognizing it as insane. Unless you make a wrong turn and have to depend on it to recalc the route, that gets intense fast.
So was that a result of Google knowing me enough to want me dead or does it treat everyone like that? Won't it be great when the same software team has the wheel and the throttle? Now add in the extra random insanity when it can't sense the environment well. If we allow self driving cars based on anything approaching this current tech out onto the roads we all deserve the Darwin Award.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday September 04 2017, @02:02PM
I find the opposite. Either DDG has the answer in the first page, or it doesn't return any results for tech queries. If I take the ones to Google that DDG fails on, it gives me pages and pages of irrelevant crap that's totally unrelated to my search term.
For maps, I've found that OpenStreetMap has better data in most places than Google Maps and on Android OSMAnd lets you download vector maps for offline use and offline navigation at a fairly coarse granularity (e.g. a country or a state), so it's easy to get all of the maps that you need for offline navigation for a long trip. It doesn't give you traffic data, but aside from that I've found it better.
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday September 08 2017, @10:18PM
The twist is strong in this one!
Let me get this straight: social justice is "evil"? jmorris, do you have horns growing out of your head? I hear they are very stylish these days.