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>The ratings and reviews are integral part of a map product. No they are not. I and many others I know just use the "map product" for directions to get to plac

>The ratings and reviews are integral part of a map product. No they are not. I and many others I know just use the "map product" for directions to get to places. Google maps was useful long before the integration of the cesspool of crowd-sourced reviews. You might want a map of top 10 whatever voted by the democratic people of Gmaps/Yelp busy-bodies but there is no reason that needs to be in the core. Google maps has an API that lets you plot things on it. Yelp can plot things on it. Leave maps to be maps and keep the clutter of opinion diarrhea out of there.

jryle70 8y ago
If you search for places to eat at 10pm, wouldn't you also want to know if they are still open, what kind of food they offer, how people rate them? Google Maps is such a dominant service that a competing company like Yelp will be at a huge disadvantage. No wonder Yelp complains. But you can't say what Google does doesn't make sense.
- jasonlotito 8y ago
  > If you search for places to eat at 10pm... All the times I've searched for places to eat at 10pm or later, no. I just wanted to find the place.
- mmt 8y ago
  >wouldn't you also want to know if they are still open, Yes, but my experience is that, especially for the case of later (or earlier) than peak business hours for an area, I can't trust a second- or third-hand source like a mapping service for this kind of information. Even if it weren't for the GIGO problem, I still have the UI problem in that there's only an "open now" boolean filter, which is horrible if I'm searching at 9:48 for places open after 10. >what kind of food they offer, Sometimes, but there's often at least a hint in the name of the restaurant. Often, though, the later it is, the less importance the kind of food holds. >how people rate them? Honestly, not even a little, since, by this point, it's a "beggars can't be choosers" situation. Plus, even if I had the inclination to dig into the reviews, I wouldn't care what people thought of, for example, the service during the dinner rush.
- hueving 8y ago
  You don't need user ratings to tell if they are open or what type of restaurant it is. That's basic business information that Google has allowed businesses to provide forever.

jryle70 8y ago

If you search for places to eat at 10pm, wouldn't you also want to know if they are still open, what kind of food they offer, how people rate them? Google Maps is such a dominant service that a competing company like Yelp will be at a huge disadvantage. No wonder Yelp complains. But you can't say what Google does doesn't make sense.

jasonlotito 8y ago
> If you search for places to eat at 10pm... All the times I've searched for places to eat at 10pm or later, no. I just wanted to find the place.
mmt 8y ago
>wouldn't you also want to know if they are still open, Yes, but my experience is that, especially for the case of later (or earlier) than peak business hours for an area, I can't trust a second- or third-hand source like a mapping service for this kind of information. Even if it weren't for the GIGO problem, I still have the UI problem in that there's only an "open now" boolean filter, which is horrible if I'm searching at 9:48 for places open after 10. >what kind of food they offer, Sometimes, but there's often at least a hint in the name of the restaurant. Often, though, the later it is, the less importance the kind of food holds. >how people rate them? Honestly, not even a little, since, by this point, it's a "beggars can't be choosers" situation. Plus, even if I had the inclination to dig into the reviews, I wouldn't care what people thought of, for example, the service during the dinner rush.
hueving 8y ago
You don't need user ratings to tell if they are open or what type of restaurant it is. That's basic business information that Google has allowed businesses to provide forever.