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>laughing their full heads off every time they think about how there are people who do free work for Google who think they are making the world a better place o
by vba616 4y ago
>laughing their full heads off every time they think about how there are people who do free work for Google who think they are making the world a better place or something.
So when you go to a store that Google Maps says is open, and find it's closed, you refuse to correct the hours and go "MUHAHAHAHA...I refuse to help Google, take that, corporate scum!"
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoWhy would I bother checking Google Maps? But basically, yeah. If Google wants my expertise and data collection ability, they can pay me for it. As it stands now they just cold call businesses and ask them with an AI thing.
- nine_k 4y agoWhat other source would you rather check?
- pietervdvn 4y agoOpenStreetMap?
- nine_k 4y agoOkay! I just opened OsmAnd and looked up my local supermarket. Sadly, no work hours. And this is a very popular supermarket right next to a train station in central Brooklyn, NY. The thing is that business owners do update the info on Google Maps, and have an incentive to do so, but only volunteers update OSM. OSM shines where businesses don't care but volunteers do: trails in a park, non-commercial POIs, etc.
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoI always check the actual website of the business in question. Search engines are wrong like 40% of the time in my experience.
- reaperducer 4y agoAt a company my wife worked for, the social media department spent half its time fixing store hours, addresses, and map locations in Google Maps and Apple Maps. I guess it's nice that ordinary people try to do these updates for Big G and Apple. But they're often wrong, or they presume a one-day change is a permanent change, or that it applies to every location on the planet.
- acheron 4y agoWhat? Why on earth would I correct it?
- Dylan16807 4y agoI'm sure you can figure it out. I believe in you. (And that response is because I'm 100% treating your question in good faith and not "I know why I would, but also I know why I wouldn't and prefer that, so I'll pretend I don't know why I would".)
- newguynewphone 4y agoSo the trillion dollar company can be better, of course