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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday September 04 2017, @02:02PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Monday September 04 2017, @02:02PM (#563455) Journal

    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.

    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.

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