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I have DDG set as my default search but I miss effective business searches (lemmy.ml)
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DDG, to its credit, behaves like search engines used to, that is you just get results, not "answers" however for all the ways they annoy, Google has over the years made advances where "answers" actually are what I want.

Specifically, google search integrates very well with google maps so if I type the name of a business, the first thing I see is a formatted, sanitised presentation of the information I actually want from the business' website that is so rarely even on the site or at least not easy to find there: Where they are and when they open. DDG will usually find me the business' website if they have one and that's good and what you'd expect of a search engine but it takes much longer to go to that page, navigate through all the places they might have hidden that information only to discover they don't in fact include it at all anyway.

Is there any way to get that basic information very fast like Google has always provided? I'm talking specifically about browser based searches because this usually comes up when I'm using desktop, and even on my phone I don't want to open or obtain another app just for this.

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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn't show any business or maps data though, just the search results like DDG does.

[–] jrgn@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Ahh my bad, didn't think of that, but of course it doesn't.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It's the main thing I miss from using google, the maps results and the business profiles. So far none of the other search engines I've tried have it, or they have an alternative that doesn't work.