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What blows the mind is why would anyone use Facebook instead of google search or your phones map application to find this kind of thing.
by loloquwowndueo 4y ago
What 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.