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In Google Maps, I go “Home” every second trip. Yet, when I type “Home” (or whatever the French equivalent is), the only suggestions I get are “Home depot” and “
by alexis_fr 7y ago
In Google Maps, I go “Home” every second trip. Yet, when I type “Home” (or whatever the French equivalent is), the only suggestions I get are “Home depot” and “Homeware shops”. I went as far as setting a “place” labelled “fghjk”. I still get other results, despite using “Fghjk” every second trip!!!
Also visible in Youtube. There’s a French guy who explained what it was to be raped by a woman, and I often refer people to it (and half a dozen other videos). When I search for his video’s title and his channel name, I systematically get 2 other results first, generally videos about how many women get raped, from the Huffington Post, often the ones with fewer views.
It really feels like Google is trying hard to dodge the correct answer.
- Noumenon72 7y agoTry Google voice search; I just say "OK Google -- navigate to home".
- Marsymars 7y agoI don't want my phone listening for key phrases. This was a solved problem years ago. Windows Phone let you pin nav directions to any address you wanted directly on your home screen.
- okasaki 7y agoThey probably copied it from Google? https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6291823?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6291823?co=GENIE.Plat...
- Marsymars 7y agoI don't know which came first, but that does appear to work in the same way. (Notwithstanding that you can't navigate to "Home" on the Android widget without enabling location history, but inputting the address manually seems to work fine.) This seem like it should work around the poor "Home" search the previous poster was referring to.
- cameronbrown 7y agoI've noticed YouTube's been propping up mainstream media for sensitive subjects. Some of these MSM videos have hundreds of views where those with millions from independent creators are buried on page four. I think this is to combat fake news but we all know CNN and Fox News all make stuff up from time to time to fit an agenda so they're hardly much better.