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Re:Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’... by el_benhameen on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @04:54PM (#36332485)
Google maps is also terrible at showing _only_ relevant info. I searched for “coffee” in a small area earlier today (small because I wanted to walk); it zoomed out to a much larger area and showed me coffee shops along with taquerias, oil change shops, banks, etc. both in the results pane and scattered all over the map. It was such a mess as to be unusable.
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Re:Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’... by sjf on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @06:23PM (#36333622)
Thank you, this is a huge problem with maps search results. It's showing too many results and the ranking is rubbish. Searching for coffee shows tons of low quality results including ones for Target and McDonald's.
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Re:Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’... by pests on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @06:43PM (#36333858)
I mean, McDonald's does have coffee. I wouldn't say that is incorrect.
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Re:Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’... by bombcar on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @07:39PM (#36334419)
Their coffee is decently good for a large chain.

And targets often have a Starbucks inside thier belly.

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Re:Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’... by jcrash on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @08:19PM (#36334785)
You're being flagged but you're absolutely correct. Maps search is awful. Yes, most McDonalds might have more than 4 stars, but that's not what I want when I search 'cafe'! I avoid most chain restaurants in general which makes it much worse. I wish there was at least an option to block restaurants from showing up in your results.
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Re:Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’... by bschwindHN on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @08:26PM (#36334835)
Search for "specialty coffee " and you'll be more likely to find a good place.

Google maps is still getting worse and worse though.

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Re:Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’... by quantified on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @09:18PM (#36335208)
Search for "brew pub" and you'll get tons of non-brewpub results. I got a wholesale distributor while searching in south Indiana last night.
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Re:Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’... by smcin on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @10:49PM (#36335854)
Oil change shops are functionally equivalent to coffee shops for droids. Let us not be exclusionary...
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Re:Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’... by docmars on Thursday June 15, 2023 @09:30AM (#36340182)
But sir, that oil change shop offers cheap-ass coffee to its loyal customers and someone told Google Maps to tag that location with "Coffee".
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Re:Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’... by ponkipo on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:35AM (#36355530)
on the same topic - sometimes it's so frustrating when I put some shop name in Google Maps while I'm in Paris and looking on the map of my neighborhood, for example - and whoosh - it zooms so far out to show all the places which "suit" the search in all the Europe. Why would it do that?
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