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In 2018, Apple even started publishing maps produced entirely with its own resources, officially becoming a mapping company. Now, to be fair, while there’s no doubt that Apple’s Maps product was quite terrible when it launched in 2012, the company been diligently working to improve its mapping data. Glad there is !OSM that will remain my mapping search default. I won’t be using your Maps results anymore so. #OSM data is far more accurate and detailed than most other mapping solutions. I’m really disappointed in this I’m a default DDG user and volunteer.

Others were simply skeptical of Apple’s ability of showing accurate location results. Many wondered why DuckDuckGo was moving away from OpenStreetMap (OSM) when the crowdsourced platform’s values coincided perfectly with the search engine’s policy of not profiting from users’ data. For local searches, where your approximate location information is sent by your browser to us, we discard it immediately after use,” DuckDuckGo insisted.īut that did not stop disgruntled users from expressing their disappointment over the change. “We do not send any personally identifiable information such as IP address to Apple or other third parties. The privacy-focused company also went on to explain that its policy of not collecting or sharing personal information would remain in place for this new integration also. “As one of the first global companies using Apple MapKit JS, we can now offer users improved address searches, additional visual features, enhanced satellite imagery, and continually updated maps already in use on billions of Apple devices worldwide,” DuckDuckGo said, detailing that Apple Maps would be available both embedded within private search results for relevant queries, as well as from the ‘Maps’ tab on any search result page. But now, Apple becomes the default map services provider for DuckDuckGo – though the integration had not fully rolled out worldwide at the time of publishing this post. While sidebars would show OpenStreetMap’s crowdsourced maps, for direction services, DDG allowed users to choose from Bing Maps, HERE Maps, and Google Maps. Until now, DuckDuckGo has used a variety of different maps to answer search queries. But last week, DuckDuckGo did something that ruffled quite a few feathers in its fanbase: the search engine announced it was partnering with Apple Maps to answer map and address-related searches. From handling a few thousand daily searches in 2010-11, the privacy-focused company has matured to answering more than 9 billion queries a year, and the numbers are only growing.

As a search engine that doesn’t track its users, DuckDuckGo takes pride in its ‘anti-Google’ reputation.