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Comment by godzillabrennus | Hacker News Reader

I stopped using Google for search in 2017 and haven’t missed anything about it.

What do you use to find businesses, opening hours, ect.?

Lots of businesses have websites that can be found on other search engines. Those websites often include their opening hours.

The thing google really excels at is questions like "what bakeries near here are open on Sunday after 12:00h".

Sure, I can go to 15 individual websites, select the specific branch I want (if I got another map service to spit out names of bakeries) and hunt for their opening hours in 15 different styles of menus.

Google is just really good if it can sell you something. And sometimes, I need something to be sold to me.

Duckduckgo (uses Apple Maps) works just fine. Search for bakeries and observe every listing has a closing time or notes they're already closed. Bing maps works just fine. Search for bakeries and select "late lunch" in the hours dropdown.

Yelp can do that.

Google is hard to beat on that matter, but I volunteer some of my time to keep my area well-mapped in OpenStreetMap, including business hours, etc.

StreetComplete is a nice tool to accomplish this while I'm taking a walk.

For opening hours, usually Facebook pages. Google is too unreliable for that, especially when it's a holiday.

That's around the time that the Google Now feed became blatantly opinionated. It would find articles about things that I'm interested that were also related to political hot topics, and if I clicked the button to tell it I wasn't interested in the hot topic, the only option was to tell it I wasn't interested in the topic I am. Even if there was plenty of content about the topic I am interested in that wasn't being tied into the zeitgeist.

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