I use GPS (Apple Maps) because where I live it is not uncommon for there to be traffic and require different routes to take in order to get where I need to go on time. So I fire up apple car play and tell my phone (via my car) that I need to go to college, or work, and see if it wants me to take a different route just in case there is an accident or road closure. If I don’t, I risk missing class or work. I like to have it up for accident reports and traffic slowdown notices. (I used to use Waze, but now I’m not using Google).
As someone who has worked most of his life in the IT field (I’m a programmer now but a lot of my side work has been IT) - it astounds me to see people using search engines to go to sites they already know, and yes, they often accidentally click on the advertisement (AD) links - even I have a hard time telling which ones are ads and which are the real links, but I rarely search for sites I already know.
I used to spend every weekend at my parent’s house removing windows viruses from family members who did this until, (back in the day), I got them Chromebooks - that all went away. Now most of my family uses iPads and iPhones to do what they need to do.
But yes, as someone who has spent 7 years on IT support for my company, especially in the older crowd, they never typed in the address right, which resulted in it going to google.
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DuckDuckGo!!! I used Bing for most of 2018 in my bid to go “Google Free” - now I’m on DDG. Yeah, it’s a change, but it’s nice knowing I’m not selling my soul to th... ok ok I’ll stop.
