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This just looks awful.... Looking for restaurants in my city I get a list, of which I can display a whole two (!!!) on my screen at once, next to a tiny sliver

This just looks awful.... Looking for restaurants in my city I get a list, of which I can display a whole two (!!!) on my screen at once, next to a tiny sliver of a map, because google wants to provide me a link to every service they have ever invented on the side of the screen (seriously, this is barely an exaggeration).... And within this list I get a host of useless information such as "at a glance: flavour, dining experience", "Score: overall: 15" (15 out of what?!!!), and a half of one persons text review (what good is half of one review for anyone?). Awful design. Just afwul. And this is aside from the fact that the big 'restructure' and integration with G+ to succeed really needs me to have all of my friends using the same service, reviewing restaurants under their real names (v. unlikely). Why don't google just focus on providing some clean and simple frontends to all that data they have. I'd love a better service to look up a decent restaurant to go to. This is very definitely not it...

jxi 14y ago
This sounds like a "30 seconds of usage just to find reasons to bash another G+ product" type of review. The Zagat rating system is pretty clearly described when you choose a category, and it's also shown if you hover the score. Also, are you saying there's too much or too little text? First you're complaining that you can't see enough, then you're saying there's not enough information. There's a contradiction here. I honestly think it looks fine, and seeing 3 restaurants per category to choose a category seems fine to me. I think there's all the info I need at each step of drilling down as well. Looks great to me.
- twelvechairs 14y ago
  > Also, are you saying there's too much or too little text? Its both. There is loads too much stuff on the screen (that I'm not interested in in the slightest), and at the same time it is very difficult for me to try to make a comparison of multiple restaurants. Whether I want to do this by average review, price, location, by looking at individual reviews, etc. it all involves a huge amount of scrolling and clicking and remembering where to scroll to on the previous page etc. (much more than necessary). At least for the way I want to look for restaurants. Actually the Zagat rating system is pretty straightforward, but I don't seem to get it in my city (outside the USA), just an 'overall score'. Also - Apologies if I was a little on the condescending side - its genuinely because I want google to produce a good product that I can use, but for me I can never see myself finding this useful.

jxi 14y ago

This sounds like a "30 seconds of usage just to find reasons to bash another G+ product" type of review. The Zagat rating system is pretty clearly described when you choose a category, and it's also shown if you hover the score. Also, are you saying there's too much or too little text? First you're complaining that you can't see enough, then you're saying there's not enough information. There's a contradiction here. I honestly think it looks fine, and seeing 3 restaurants per category to choose a category seems fine to me. I think there's all the info I need at each step of drilling down as well. Looks great to me.

twelvechairs 14y ago
> Also, are you saying there's too much or too little text? Its both. There is loads too much stuff on the screen (that I'm not interested in in the slightest), and at the same time it is very difficult for me to try to make a comparison of multiple restaurants. Whether I want to do this by average review, price, location, by looking at individual reviews, etc. it all involves a huge amount of scrolling and clicking and remembering where to scroll to on the previous page etc. (much more than necessary). At least for the way I want to look for restaurants. Actually the Zagat rating system is pretty straightforward, but I don't seem to get it in my city (outside the USA), just an 'overall score'. Also - Apologies if I was a little on the condescending side - its genuinely because I want google to produce a good product that I can use, but for me I can never see myself finding this useful.