[VikingCoder]

When I search for Fish Tacos on DDG's maps and Google, it's night and day.

DDG gave me 4 results, none anywhere near me.

Do you have a suggestion for how I could have been more effective?

[andrewprock]

I do not use DDG for map queries. Google Maps is still light years ahead of anyone else for maps. For non-map queries, DDG is now well ahead of Google except for long tail stuff, for example: technical error messages.

[smichel17]

I currently also use Google Maps for map queries.. But I use it through DuckDuckGo, with !gm. I actually find this a better experience than navigating to Google Maps before entering my query.

[Doctor_Fegg]

For POIs, Google Maps is out in front. For motoring directions, Apple is catching up. For walking and cycling, OSM is streets ahead.

[AdamSC1]

'Fish Tacos [X]' where X is the name of the city - or turning on your region toggle is usually enough to solve that problem.

[fiatjaf]

DDG is not good for local stuff. That's in the linked article.

[kube-system]

I find DDG more useful when I treat it like it's trying to help me use the internet, rather than like it's trying to replace the internet.

try "fish tacos !yelp"

[FalconSensei]

then, why not just use yelp?

[kube-system]

The same reason that any ddg bang is useful: fewer keystrokes, one less page load.

[FalconSensei]

IDK, for all sites I use I have them as custom searches. So Yelp would be: "y" -> tab -> search -> see Yelp results page