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I notice this especially in Google Maps. Sometimes I want to search for things like "cafe" or "hotel" and get a list of all the actual matches nearby. Even fo
by fouc 5y ago
I notice this especially in Google Maps. Sometimes I want to search for things like "cafe" or "hotel" and get a list of all the actual matches nearby. Even for buildings that show up on the map itself when you zoom in. But no, google maps search has to get all clever, hide results, and only show "relevant" results. It's super annoying when I search "hotels" and all I get is the equivalent of an agoda.com or booking.com search, when I wanted to actually see all hotel buildings, including offline ones.
- metanonsense 5y agoIf relevant only was relevant. It happens so often to me that I search for something like "restaurant" and get top results 150 kilometers away.
- Gareth321 5y agoThat's because the "relevant" results pay Google to be "relevant." It's definitely getting worse over time.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoI don't think that's on Google. The hotel industry is super heavily targeted with SEO spam. They're almost on par with online casinos in how much effort they put into manipulating search engines.
- hackernewds 5y agoBut it is Google that sets the rules for how and what is sorted. SEO is downstream
- marginalia_nu 5y agoNo I mean like virtually every document pertaining to hotels is search engine spam. It's very hard to actually find documents that aren't in this category. The hotel booking industry is extremely shady and evidently has pretty deep pockets to be able to afford literally registering hundreds if not thousands of domain names to attempt to manipulate search engines.
- fouc 5y agoTo be clear, I'm talking about the places that are visibly on the map. You can scroll around and find cafes and hotels that simply don't get returned the moment you send a search query. Places that are visibly there but not returned in search result.. It's the most bizarre thing.