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Re:US vs. Google Amicus Curiae Brief of Y Combinator in Supp... by actinium226 on Saturday May 10, 2025 @09:32PM (#43950503)
I agree. I'm so sick of maps. I type something in and there it is, can't they do any better than that? Sure they have directions to the place in multiple modalities, and photos of it, and reviews, but is that it? Is that really the best that's available?

Google drive is likewise awful. I upload something to it and there it is. I come back 10 years later and it's still there. Why doesn't it do more? Why can't it make my file better over time? Why can't they take ideas from dropbox, or box, or onedrive. Stupid monopoly forcing us all into one choice.

And as for Google Fiber, well there are so many ISPs offering gigabit plans now, what is Fiber going to offer to do better? It's like you said we need a healthy marketplace with competing companies, not just the one monopolist with shitty gigabit ethernet service.

And don't even get me started on gmail!

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Re:US vs. Google Amicus Curiae Brief of Y Combinator in Supp... by bcraven on Saturday May 10, 2025 @09:49PM (#43950585)
My apologies but I can't work out if your Google Drive example is some deep satire that's going over my head.

What functionality are you expecting?

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Re:US vs. Google Amicus Curiae Brief of Y Combinator in Supp... by Terr_ on Saturday May 10, 2025 @09:55PM (#43950612)
I think it's sarcasm, rather than the frustration of a utopianist, but it's unreasonably hard to tell.
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Re:US vs. Google Amicus Curiae Brief of Y Combinator in Supp... by yellow_postit on Saturday May 10, 2025 @10:15PM (#43950722)
I know this is satire but Maps is increasingly worse. More ads. Less useful POIs. They actually stood still long enough for Apple Maps to catch up.
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Re:US vs. Google Amicus Curiae Brief of Y Combinator in Supp... by actinium226 on Sunday May 11, 2025 @02:58AM (#43951949)
Yes, satire aside there's room for improvement in these services. Maps frequently has incorrect business hours.
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Re:US vs. Google Amicus Curiae Brief of Y Combinator in Supp... by hirvi74 on Sunday May 11, 2025 @06:34PM (#43957782)
I was always under the impression that businesses are responsible for updating their own hours for Maps. Is that not the case?
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Re:US vs. Google Amicus Curiae Brief of Y Combinator in Supp... by actinium226 on Monday May 12, 2025 @09:19AM (#43962585)
There was a business near me that closed. I reported it on Maps, and they still listed it as open for a month. Another time I arrived at a business just shortly before their closing time and found that it was closed-closed, as in out of business.

In the first case they could have paid someone $20 on fiverrr or whatever to go and physically look to see if it's closed and update it more quickly. Not sure about the second case, but either way if a maps service put in the effort to have more accurate hours they could do so, and that would be a reasonable thing for users to pay for.

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