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Google is debasing the quality of it's two largest products for no good reason (search and maps), angering every user of it's terminated former products, alienated the best employees in its workforce through random number generator layoffs, and the attention of its management is currently engaged in an antitrust trial that will go on for years.

Apple can still crush them while pocketing tens of billions of their ill gotten dollars and undermining what is left of their reputation. They're just playing the long game.

My money is on them buying Kagi not Bing. Kagi Orion was built on Webkit, so maybe they've already got an equity stake?




What’s wrong with Google Maps? I’ve heard of and seen the problems with search but not Maps.


“Turn left at the McDonalds” is not a driving direction, especially when said McDonalds is not even visible from the other side of the street. It’s a complete joke. I’m never going back to it, good riddance.


In Europe, it likes to use unpaved tractor roads, or roads barely usable for cars in small towns as shortcuts.

When someone is not double checking, or thinks that is indeed the only way available to reach their destination, they are in for a surprise.

Anecdote, yet it happens to me all the time specially since they got the green suggestions, when traveling in country side in Southern Europe or Mediterrean islands.


Its filled with ads now, and it’s features degraded when you’re not logged in




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