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This is incorrect: the clocks mean he has selected those search results before, not that he has physically been there. Source: Just tested this in-app.

danShumway 9y ago
Oof, that's really bad if that's the case; it means that a mis-click can poison your search results and make them less useful. I get that Google's all about saving clicks now, but I've noticed between maps and other apps (Google Music comes to mind) the extra inference sometimes just makes me scared to click on things. Can you at least long press or something to remove a location from your history?
- l9k 9y ago
  This is usually true for any big website you browse on the internet. Any click on Facebook or Amazon is influencing the content you're going to see. Google has a user history website where you can see everything they recorded from Search and other apps, and you can delete the entries
  - danShumway 9y ago
    This is one of my biggest pet peeves with modern recommendation systems. It's like somebody decided "no, the user can't click a 'show-me-more-like-this' button, it has to be automatic" and now I have to treat every website like I'm doing reinforcement training with a cat. But at least with AI there's something marginally close to an excuse, because you need a ton of data to make it work. With maps it's just plain and simple bad UX design, I can't think of any reason why locations shouldn't be sorted by last visited instead of last clicked. > Google has a user history website From a usability standpoint, if it's not accessible from the same same interface where your results are displayed, then it doesn't exist.
l9k 9y ago
Just like in Google Search, it still makes sense to show the results he was interested in previously even though he's not been there. Maybe he looked at a location first for information, and to know where it is, and needs to look for it again at a later time to actually go there.
sampo 9y ago
Why did they choose the clock symbol to represent this?
- RussianCow 9y ago
  Probably to convey recency. What other symbol would you choose?

danShumway 9y ago

Oof, that's really bad if that's the case; it means that a mis-click can poison your search results and make them less useful. I get that Google's all about saving clicks now, but I've noticed between maps and other apps (Google Music comes to mind) the extra inference sometimes just makes me scared to click on things. Can you at least long press or something to remove a location from your history?

l9k 9y ago
This is usually true for any big website you browse on the internet. Any click on Facebook or Amazon is influencing the content you're going to see. Google has a user history website where you can see everything they recorded from Search and other apps, and you can delete the entries
- danShumway 9y ago
  This is one of my biggest pet peeves with modern recommendation systems. It's like somebody decided "no, the user can't click a 'show-me-more-like-this' button, it has to be automatic" and now I have to treat every website like I'm doing reinforcement training with a cat. But at least with AI there's something marginally close to an excuse, because you need a ton of data to make it work. With maps it's just plain and simple bad UX design, I can't think of any reason why locations shouldn't be sorted by last visited instead of last clicked. > Google has a user history website From a usability standpoint, if it's not accessible from the same same interface where your results are displayed, then it doesn't exist.

l9k 9y ago

Just like in Google Search, it still makes sense to show the results he was interested in previously even though he's not been there. Maybe he looked at a location first for information, and to know where it is, and needs to look for it again at a later time to actually go there.

sampo 9y ago

Why did they choose the clock symbol to represent this?

RussianCow 9y ago
Probably to convey recency. What other symbol would you choose?