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Excellent post, full of valuable insight. Apple lacks the ability to mine vast amounts of local search data, as Google was able to do when it started its mappi
by pohl 14y ago
Excellent post, full of valuable insight.
Apple lacks the ability to mine vast amounts of local search data, as Google was able to do when it started its mapping project.
Does anybody know what this means? Don't the queries I make go through their servers, and isn't my location a relevant parameter for those queries? I don't see why this can't be mined.
- fpgeek 14y agoI think what it means is that Google had lots of queries of the form: <thing> (e.g. "restaurant") <location> (e.g "Times Square") that came in through the search engine "front door". Having a lot of relevant questions (and hard data on which answers to those questions were used) is an invaluable resource in bootstrapping mapping and local search together.