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I wanted burritos. Facebook Search sent me to a dead restaurant 45m away
- sieabahlpark 4y ago
- loloquwowndueo 4y agoWhat blows the mind is why would anyone use Facebook instead of google search or your phones map application to find this kind of thing.
- oh_sigh 4y agoI think the author didn't actually go to this burrito restaurant, but rather just wrote an article as if he was going to go to the burrito restaurant. From the intro: > We’ve written about the decline of Google Search, and how to rigorously measure it through human evaluation. But why stop at Google? We’re starting a new blog series of real-world ML evaluations, where we investigate search and recommendation systems – whether YouTube, Meta, TikTok, or Amazon. In this post: an evaluation of Facebook Search!
- jlee4219 4y agoobviously would use Yelp or Google maps first, but I'm still pretty surprised at how particularly bad Facebook seems to be at this
- JasonFruit 4y agoMaybe Facebook doesn't really care if it's bad at that category of search, since nobody in their right mind would use Facebook to figure out where to get burritos.
- dreamcompiler 4y agoThe idea that I would ever let Facebook know my location, or even use the Facebook app rather than visit it in a browser ... +shudder+.
- luxuryballs 4y agoYou described me perfectly back before I deleted Facebook, follow me and you too can savor every moment you get back by never going there again!
- mimikatz 4y agoFor some businesses Facebook is great, bars that have events, getting a better feel for an apartment complex, a couple other things like that. I won't use it as a maps but to find a place hosting a trivia night it is really useful.
- lom 4y ago45m, for most of the world, means meters. When I first read the title I thought that was awesome! Just around the block. But reality disappoints.
- LAC-Tech 4y agoFor some reason in my head I immediately read it as "45km". Because that seemed like an appropriate amount of distance for it to be weird.
- ddalcino 4y agoAs a US citizen, I read it as 45 miles, which is as terrible as I would expect from Facebook.
- groby_b 4y agoAs a European expat in the US, I settled for minutes. Edit: Turns out I was right? Weird world.
- bckr 4y agoWhat's interesting is that, when driving, minutes and miles are partially interchangeable, since 60mph is a pretty average driving speed on the highway.
- jkaplowitz 4y agoThis type of distance is also measured in time units (including minutes) in Canada. Here's an overall Canadian measurement flowchart showing when they use imperial, when they use metric, when they use ambiguous volume-based Canadian cooking units that can either be metric or Canada-specific customary volumes, and when they use time: https://preview.redd.it/dsmht7np3gl31.png?width=681&format=png&auto=webp&s=508db2b18252766b1b1dfe50bcd2eb836e77863e https://preview.redd.it/dsmht7np3gl31.png?width=681&format=p...
- LAC-Tech 4y ago
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago> I was hungry the other day when hanging out in SOMA in San Francisco, so I tried searching for "burritos near me"... It’s unfortunate that they did not compare this to Google Maps. I have had very positive experiences using Maps for queries like this.
- umeshunni 4y agoThe entire article is a PR piece for some "AI" startup
- weird-eye-issue 4y agoI've never seen 45m to mean minutes
- lstamour 4y agoI was about to say I’ve seen it, but nope, I agree. Even putting it in context, like “1m43s” isn’t something I’d see often. “1 min. 43 sec.” is what I would expect.
- happytoexplain 4y agoI see XXm for minutes all the time (USA), but definitely not in contexts like this where it is easily confused for miles (edit: or meters).
- SnowHill9902 4y agoIt’s used for elapsed time not for time intervals. They have the same units but different usage.
- labster 4y agoHow did it take them three quarters of an hour to walk only 45 meters?
- weird-eye-issue 4y agoIs that context in the title?
- lifeformed 4y agoSometimes I'll be on Google Maps, zoomed into my city near me, and search for a store I know exists nearby, and it'll zoom out to space, rotate the planet, and zoom back into Iraq to a vaguely similarly named place.
- prawn 4y agoI'm usually in Australia. Sometimes my searches when I have poor connectivity will end up favouring Morocco - maybe that was the last time I shared my location data with them and they can't triangulate from cell towers or something else? Though you'd think they might infer a location from current map view.
- LegitShady 4y agoI had someone give me some GIS data for a project and when projected all the points appeared on the other side of the world. Took me a minute to figure out they needed negatives on their longitudes.
- pxc 4y agoYou gotta love the animation for adding drama to the error
- Syzygies 4y agoWow. You were in Richmond and didn't stop at Tacos Los Primos (550 23rd St, Richmond, CA 94804, in parking lot)? I'm a https://masienda.com/ https://masienda.com/ devotee who regularly makes masa from scratch (nixtamalized Oaxacan corn) for tacos with fire-roasted salsa including garden tomatillos. I still live for my next visit to Richmond, for the tacos. At least Facebook got the trip to Richmond right. If you want to stay in SF, the Primavera stall at the Saturday farmers market by the Ferry Building is worth the wait.
- listenallyall 4y agoBla bla bla none of this is real, it is an ad for an AI training Saas.
- coenhyde 4y agoThe author made an error of judgement of not abandoning his investigation to go to Best Coast Burrito in Emeryville.
- causality0 4y agoGoogle Maps does this regularly. When I forget to include the word "closest" in my voice commands it will inevitably ask me to choose between the Pizza Hut that's 4.5 miles away and the one that's 28.7 miles away. On the upside, it never fails to correctly drop the second half of my perennial response of "the closest one, you fuckwit".
- Ancapistani 4y agoI can't believe Facebook's "Marketplace" search beat out literally anything. It is easily the worst search experience I've ever had.