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> 1. You were searching for an airport, left out the word > "airport", which is the most important word, and it's > Apple's fault? Yes, it is Apple's fault
by joeyo 14y ago
> 1. You were searching for an airport, left out the word
> "airport", which is the most important word, and it's
> Apple's fault?
Yes, it is Apple's fault, in a sense, because the customer is always right. Moreover, a competitor (Google) is able to connect the dots and return the right results. I just searched that same phrase on Android and it gave me directions to the airport in question, along with a phone number and other useful information.
Whether it is able achieve that feat because it knows that I have been to SFO within the last month, or knows that I have emails in my inbox that pertain to the airport, or because more users click through to SFO than other hits for that search phrase or because they use black magic is beside the point: Google's search results are simply better.
- guywithabike 14y agoWhy not just search for "sfo" or "airport", both of which return the airport correctly on iOS 6's maps? Typing out "san francisco international" and leaving out "airport" seems incredibly contrived.
- zmmz 14y agoNo, it isn't. When most people refer to a place, they refer to it by it's common name. You fly to JFK, Heathrow, Charles de Gaule, Gatwick, Luton, O'Hare, etc. There is no need to add "airport" to something which so obviously is one in the context. The familiarity of common names is why wikipedia uses them for article names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles#Common_names http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles#Common...
- Bud 14y agoYou're missing something obvious, which is that out of all the airports you listed, NONE of them is named after the city it's in or near. SFO, of course, is. Which makes this particular search MUCH more ambiguous unless you include the word "airport".
- reddit_clone 14y agoThe answer to the problem of not coming up with the right answer for a perfectly reasonable query is 'Change your query'? Apple apologists are actually making Apple lazy and entitled. Any sub standard stuff needs to be pointed out. Not hand-waved away.
- untog 14y agoWhy should I have to? Google knows exactly what I'm asking for when I enter any of those terms, Apple does not. That is a deficiency on Apple's part, I shouldn't have to change my behaviour.