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As long as it is to advertise in their own platform sounds great. I'd rather have nice restaurant suggestions on top than McDonald's and Dominoes or whoever pai
by vasco 11mo ago
As long as it is to advertise in their own platform sounds great. I'd rather have nice restaurant suggestions on top than McDonald's and Dominoes or whoever paid the most every day. Using Uber eats is like some app from the past with ads as global banners that are the same for all users. If you're going to throw me ads at least use my history to try and do something useful.
- CGamesPlay 11mo agoJust so we are clear about how advertising works, you will still just see suggestions from who paid the most every day. The data just informs the marketing teams whether they should pay more for your eyeballs specifically.
- esafak 11mo agoNot necessarily. It depends on the ad type; cost per impression vs click. The latter incentivizes relevance.
- keehee 11mo agoThat something useful is turning you into a data cow and making money off of it while returning zero value to you. Seriously you want people to use your travel and movement and choice data to make a suggestion list of restaurants for you to order from? How helpless are you?
- crazygringo 11mo ago...yes? I like good recommendations better than bad recommendations. The value I get is better recommendations. Like, I literally update the categories of things I'm interested in, in my Google profile, so I get less useless ads. People complain about bad and useless recommendations and irrelevant ads all the time. Personalization is how you get better ones.
- keehee 11mo agoJust wanted to verify how far you are willing to go to get a list generated for you that’s probably not even that unique from the other Y number of people who love being suggested obvious information. How many combinations of the restaurants around you do you think exist and are needed to provide that information? Certainly need Uber guzzling down Terabytes of data to rank the local Chiles over the local Applebees. Lets be honest, restaurant suggestions aren’t a real problem anyone has.
- crazygringo 11mo ago> Lets be honest, restaurant suggestions aren’t a real problem anyone has. I suspect you don't live in New York City, or another city with a thriving restaurant scene where new places open and old places close all the time and you can't keep track of them all in your head.
- Marsymars 11mo agoI get your point, but the problem here for me is that most of the available information about said restaurants (ads and social media reception) and just noise, there’s no actual signal there about whether I’d actually like to eat at a restaurant.
- keehee2 11mo agoLol I do live in Nyc in Brooklyn (between Bedford Ave and Rogers Ave on Martense St, I’ve also lived in Carroll Gardens, East Village, Crown Heights, Upper West Side) and there are plenty of blogs and people with a vocal enough opinion in Nyc to not need to hand off my restaurant searches to Uber of all companies. If you have problems with restaurant rankings in Nyc you’re not living right.
- crazygringo 11mo ago"you’re not living right." Oh really? Sometimes you just need a quick decision, whether you're going somewhere with friends at the last second, or yes ordering delivery and just want something that will be one of the better options. Because there isn't 1 Chinese place in your delivery radius, there are 20. Believe me, I read restaurant blogs and talk to people too. But that's more for stuff I plan in advance, not last-minute decisions in a neighborhood I don't visit often. So maybe don't be so quick to judge that others aren't "living right", how about?
- landgenoot 11mo agoI don't think the problem is these kind of suggestions. Are people suddenly moving more between corp A and corp B? Must be something going on, let's buy the stock. Suddenly multiple Ubers are dropping off people at a residential building during the night? They probably know each other. Let's flag that as a potential risk.
- vasco 11mo agoI got a mirror, you're the cow.
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