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Agreed. Is that a problem that can be solved and what keeps companies from doing this?
by partisan 9y ago
Agreed. Is that a problem that can be solved and what keeps companies from doing this?
- ghaff 9y agoI assume the usual answer. $$. To do a really good job, you need to program in local knowledge that probably isn't easily encoded in algorithms. Manhattan is actually pretty easy. In many parts of Manhattan it really is mostly about just drawing a reasonable bounding box. But for a random location, getting to a result that you'd get conversing with an intelligent assistant familiar with the area is going to be tough. You have to apply a lot of your own judgement and, even then, I definitely mess up now and then with cities I'm unfamiliar with. And most people pay for low prices. Not incrementally more sophisticated recommendation engines.