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> If you search for anything physically around you, again, amazing. Maps? Find an online vendor for a certain product in your country? Google wins. I must be u
by csomar 2y ago
> If you search for anything physically around you, again, amazing. Maps? Find an online vendor for a certain product in your country? Google wins.
I must be using it wrong then. 1 out of 5 times when I search for a particular place (with its full name) Google maps will make different suggestions even though the particular place am looking at exists there. Try looking up a hotel if you are in an area where Google has prices/monetization. You type the name of the hotel and it shows you every hotel out there with the prices.
- semking 2y agoPlot twist: poisoning local results is one of the easiest things to do. So yeah. Great until not good. And again, the problem is simple: a lack of safeguards. If you let randoms abuse the system, someone always will at some point.
- csomar 2y agoPoisoning the local results is part of it, but the ones I described are poisoning by monetization. I've nothing against monetization but it has to be reasonable otherwise the product is just one huge ad.