Re:Google is freaking out about ChatGPT
by CamelCaseName on Sunday January 22, 2023 @07:45PM
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Google Maps is unequivocally the champion in terms of reviews, and this is what really matters when it comes to actually finding places to go.
Not just that, but it's directly monetizable because if the user journey starts with a Google Maps search query, e.g. "lunch near me", those first few results are worth real money.
Isn’t this saying that google maps started optimizing the thing that made money- rather than the thing customers want?
Apple Maps will get better at reviews as more people switch over.
Apple Maps leverages yelp for reviews which is a better dataset than google reviews.
And just like above said, google is optimizing for ad revenue not user experience. This opens the door for a competitor to swoop in and offer better results.
Re:Google is freaking out about ChatGPT
by mrfluffybeard on Monday January 23, 2023 @02:45AM
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Google reviews is more superior when it comes to europe.
The past couple of years Google maps has gotten more glitchy, given worse directions, and most recently started showing extreme lag. Maps in CarPlay started falling behind real-time. First by a few seconds, then by minutes. Wasn’t sure if it was the car head unit, phone, reception or what.
Out of desperation I tried Apple Maps. Not only did it work flawlessly, but its driving prompts are greatly superior to Google maps.
I could go on about YouTube having broken bulk-publishing of videos (this for my son’s football and basketball games chopped up into indivuap videos).
It’s all horrible now.