Privacy-centric DuckDuckGo shuns Google and turns to Apple Maps for location-based searches

With the emphasis it places on privacy, it should come as little surprise that search engine DuckDuckGo is less than keen on Google. The latest demonstration of this is the company's decision to eschew Google Maps in favor of Apple's MapKit JS framework to power its map-related searches. DuckDuckGo says that this brings users a 'valuable combination of mapping and privacy', both on the desktop and on mobile. See also: DuckDuckGo denies using fingerprinting to track its users Google relents and hands duck.com to privacy-centric rival DuckDuckGo Privacy-focused DuckDuckGo finds Google personalizes search results even for logged out and incognito… [Continue Reading]