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Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo, which added Apple Maps to its search results<\/a> in early 2019, has taken the next step and added walking and driving directions<\/a> to those maps. Like the maps, the directions use Apple\u2019s MapKit JS framework<\/a>. [Daring Fireball<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo, which added Apple Maps to its search results in early 2019, has taken the next step and added walking and driving directions to those maps. Like the maps, the directions use… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,114],"tags":[83,85,1324,1323],"class_list":["post-1789572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-mobile","category-web-mapping","tag-apple-maps","tag-driving-directions","tag-duckduckgo","tag-search-engines","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787003,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/01\/duckduckgo-now-uses-apple-maps-in-search-results\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789572,"position":0},"title":"DuckDuckGo Now Uses Apple Maps in Search Results","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 January 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Google integrates its maps into its search results: synergy! 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