| ▲ | wlonkly 2 hours ago |
| They'll get their 15 minutes, but there's no _there_ there. They're owned by System1, a bottom-of-the-barrel advertising company where 1990s web brands go to die (Metacrawler? Startpage.com?? Dogpile?!?!). Their maps are OpenStreetMaps maps. People think they have their back (because OSM is showing Lake Ontario), but it's just marketing. |
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| ▲ | nancyminusone 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| as opposed to a top of the barrel advertising company like Google |
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| ▲ | ndriscoll an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Or a top of the barrel choice like just using one of the many non-profit FOSS apps that are also UIs over OpenStreetMap instead of one of the scam commercial ad-wrappers. | |
| ▲ | MisterTea an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That barrel rotted away a long time ago and all we're left with is a head -- the top is the bottom. | |
| ▲ | altcognito an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | There is significant differences in advertising. The things at the bottom of the barrel in advertising are often literally malware. | | |
| ▲ | nancyminusone an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | You mean like software that restricts what your devices can do and collects and sells your personal information? Its the very same barrel. | |
| ▲ | reaperducer 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The things at the bottom of the barrel in advertising are often literally malware. So… Google, then? It's not like it hasn't been repeatedly documented that malware is pushed through Google Ads and other properties. | |
| ▲ | an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | [deleted] | |
| ▲ | soperj an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Nah, it's all malware. Some just for your brain. |
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| ▲ | doubled112 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Dogpile?!? There's a name I haven't heard in what feels like 20 years. The concept of searching a bunch of search engines made sense to me. |
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| ▲ | bch an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | > The concept of searching a bunch of search engines made sense to me. It made sense to somebody else[0], too. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo | |
| ▲ | verdverm 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Ironicly this is what my agent does today on my behalf because regular search has become so bad | | |
| ▲ | bigfishrunning an hour ago | parent [-] | | Unfortunately at the other end of that websearch is a bunch of slop, your agent can't save you from it. | | |
| ▲ | verdverm 6 minutes ago | parent [-] | | My experience is otherwise, try alternative search SaaS like Exa, i.e. pay per search, but use multiple because they return different sets. My agent looks at the results, includes some, performs more searches. It's more of a deep search thing, very similar in spirit to how I used to run multiple queries, click a bunch of links, evaluate, keep good ones, run follow up queries, and end up with an alt-tab of dozens of browsers, each with dozens of tabs. |
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| ▲ | gruez 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| >Startpage.com I thought that was still the best way to get anonymous google index search results? |
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| ▲ | amiga386 34 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think people are more going on the "name it what you want" pages doing the rounds on socials, created originally for the Gulf of Mexico and now Lake Ontario, which a lot of people have seen, rather than the name presented by MapQuest's regular map which I don't think many people see. https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario/Epstein%20Files https://gulfof.mapquest.com/gulf/Epstein%20Files |
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| ▲ | mc32 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They forgot to scoop up mapbalst! never mind looks like they got swallowed up by bing maps (that’s where Bing got line drive from, TIL!) |
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| ▲ | strathmeyer an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
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