DuckDuckGo’s address and map searches are now powered by Apple Maps

Private search engine DuckDuckGo announced Tuesday that it’s at nowadays switched to privacy-focused Apple Maps services to “set a novel measure of trust online” for address too map searches on desktop too mobile. DuckDuckGo is i of the search engines natively supported equally an option inward Safari for iPhone, iPad too Mac.

This combination of mapping too privacy non entirely improves address searches, it besides offers visual features similar vector graphics, enhanced satellite imagery too continually updated maps.

Apple Maps are both embedded inside DuckDuckGo’s individual search results for relevant queries, equally good equally available from the Maps tab on whatsoever search consequence page.

To encounter the integration inward action, run the illustration inquiry “pizza inward Cupertino” on the DuckDuckGo website on your desktop or mobile device.

The expanded map has a sidebar listing nearby businesses that tin terminate live on clicked to chop-chop highlight that location. You tin terminate zoom inward on a location, larn details, alter views too more.

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Here are a few to a greater extent than queries to larn y'all started:

• Search for an address


• Search for a geographical place


• Search for a local business


• Search for a type of business


• Search for places nearby

The integration comes alongside Apple’s too DuckDuckGo’s strict privacy policies.

We produce non post whatsoever personally identifiable data such equally IP address to Apple or other 3rd parties. For local searches, where your estimate location data is sent past times your browser to us, nosotros discard it at in i lawsuit afterward use. You are yet anonymous when y'all perform map too address-related searches on DuckDuckGo.

This is powered past times Apple’s MapKit JavaScript framework, launched at WWDC 2018 equally a spider web framework for third-party developers to utilisation inward their apps. Apple currently uses it to embed maps on the WWDC website, inward apps similar Find My iPhone too Find My Friends, too elsewhere.

Anyone tin terminate add together Maps functionality to their website alongside only a few lines of code, consummate alongside annotations, overlays too interfaces to Apple Maps services such equally search too directions.

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