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It's interesting that in Manhattan they removed "Greenwich Village", but added "230 Fifth Rooftop Bar" and "Vinegar Hill". That makes no sense to me. https://s
by olegkikin 9y ago
It's interesting that in Manhattan they removed "Greenwich Village", but added "230 Fifth Rooftop Bar" and "Vinegar Hill". That makes no sense to me.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54ff63f0e4b0bafce6932642/t/59288282ff7c50117bc25807/1495827086559/?format=750w https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54ff63f0e4b0bafce6932...
Even according to Google Trends "Greenwich village" is 6.5 times more popular than "Vinegar Hill", let alone some rooftop bar.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Greenwich%20Village,vinegar%20hill https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Greenwich%20Villa...
- cmurf 9y agoMaybe you (as a business) can pay to be visible at a certain zoom level? That'd be a kind of advertising, and Google is in the advertising business.
- twoodfin 9y agoAren't the places Google Maps chooses to highlight a function of your account history? Certainly seems that way to me. Anyway, Greenwich Village still shows up as a neighborhood label at a range of zoom levels, just not the particular scale for this image.
- ProAm 9y ago> Aren't the places Google Maps chooses to highlight a function of your account history? Google has become good at telling you what you used to know versus what you want to discover
- kevincox 9y agoI disagree. Places that I have visited serve as excellent landmarks. I wouldn't want them to be the only thing on the map but having them dusted around makes it very easy for me to know where new places are.
- grey-area 9y agoGoogle makes money from place entries (booking ads, place ads) but not from geographic place names, this alone explains the move. Think of the places selected as ads at the top of your search results.