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Does google even have any perspective on active warzones/frontlines? I would have thought natural disasters are common enough that they would have modeled that
by seer 3y ago
Does google even have any perspective on active warzones/frontlines? I would have thought natural disasters are common enough that they would have modeled that into their route algo, and warzones are kind of like one big natural disaster like a hurricane or a flood.
I guess there is not a lot of money in it for them - disaster areas probably don’t generate a lot of revenue from maps, still though could lead to some unfortunate PR problems so there must be some incentive for them to add it.
Wondering if waze is doing better there.
- creato 3y agoYou think the PR problems come from not trying to route around war zones? “Google told me it would plan a route around this war zone, now I’m a prisoner in Russia. 0/5 stars”
- bboygravity 3y agoDoes avoiding warzones in Maps help drive ad revenue? There's your answer.
- anticensor 3y agoYes, indirectly. You cannot advertise to a dead person.
- bayindirh 3y agoOur Finance Department (i.e. AI powered BI engine running in a datacenter on a VM on a 6 year old server cluster) told us that the difference would be negligible when the FY ends, so we reduced the priority of the feature to 0.
- ricardobayes 3y agoTo continue your chain of thought, if ad revenue is the primary goal, why does it show me hotels in my home town?
- pmontra 3y agoOr why any ecommerce keeps recommending more and more products like the one you just bought and you'll never buy again for the next few years? Either everybody actually buys more and more of the same stuff until they fill their houses or the algorithm designers are following the easy road and not the one that models reality.
- nottorp 3y ago> Or why any ecommerce keeps recommending more and more products like the one you just bought and you'll never buy again for the next few years? Next few years? They recommend getting more stuff like couches or washing machines that you're going to keep for 10+ years :)
- denton-scratch 3y agoHaving never stayed in a hotel in my hometown, I don't really know what there is or how they compare. If I have a visitor, and I have to suggest a place to stay (my flat is small), I am reliant on online services.
- klyrs 3y agoAre you on Ashley Madison?
- ugjka 3y agoWaze is famous here in Latvia for routing people through overgrown forest tracks meant for offroaders and tractors
- rarenovareed 3y agoInteresting, in Estonia it is quite the opposite. Waze is almost always better at routing than google maps. Just this summer I had a car trip to one of our islands where google maps directed me down a road that got increasingly worse. We almost reached the coast but got stuck 50m before the campsite when the road turned to sand.
- names_are_hard 3y agoI don't know about routing, but in conflict areas they do add generic disclaimers / warnings that information may be outdated, conditions may be rapidly changing and that users should pay attention to "real-world conditions".
- DeathArrow 3y ago>Wondering if waze is doing better there. Waze is owned by Google. It might use the same engine for routing.