DuckDuckGo:

In our quest to provide the best experience for local searches, earlier this year we announced that we’re now using Apple’s MapKit JS framework to power our mapping features. Since then, we’ve been continually working hard on further enhancements and we’re excited today to show you some new improvements.

Read the linked press release to learn all the details but, in a nutshell, this is a big leap forward for DuckDuckGo and mapping.

And, at least in my local area, this pushed it a little bit past Google Maps. There’s a pizza place a few blocks away that opened about a month ago. It’s on DuckDuckGo (because Apple Maps) and it is not yet on Google Maps.

Small sample size, I know, but it makes privacy respecting DuckDuckGo more of an equal browsing choice for me.