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Or you can go to the restaurant's website through the link either on the SERP or Maps page... 8/10 though I don't want to see what Wordpress template a restaura

by jonknee 13y ago

Or you can go to the restaurant's website through the link either on the SERP or Maps page... 8/10 though I don't want to see what Wordpress template a restaurant is using this week, I just want to know if it's open, what other people think about it and how to get there. I find this SERP to be vastly more useful than how it used to be. Restaurant owners should too, I no longer will skip visiting your place because your website sucks or is not mobile friendly.

tripzilch 13y ago
> Or you can go to the restaurant's website through the link either on the SERP or Maps page... There are no links to restaurant's websites on that SERP page. Except one link to a Facebook page nearly falling off the bottom of screen. If you click the photos or the red balloons on the map you won't go to the restaurant's webpage, but to another page on Google that presumably has more information. Sometimes the link to the restaurant's webpage isn't there either and I have to use yet another query (name of restaurant + location) to find the actual webpage. The point/complaint of the article is that Google's results seems to be less and less coming from the Web as their index and more and more from information sources that Google controls. Even though the change for the typical end-user might be small ("I can find the same stuff"), if continued, it signals a huge change in what Google is. It used to be a service to help you execute a text search over billions of documents, which I still think is a very neat thing to be able to do.
- calebegg 13y ago
  That's simply not true. When I click one of the carousel results, I get a search result for the exact restaurant, with their page at the top: Initial search: http://files.calebegg.com/sushi-search.png http://files.calebegg.com/sushi-search.png After clicking an item: http://files.calebegg.com/sushi-result.png http://files.calebegg.com/sushi-result.png At least use the damn feature before you join in bashing it.

by jonknee 13y ago

tripzilch 13y ago

> Or you can go to the restaurant's website through the link either on the SERP or Maps page... There are no links to restaurant's websites on that SERP page. Except one link to a Facebook page nearly falling off the bottom of screen. If you click the photos or the red balloons on the map you won't go to the restaurant's webpage, but to another page on Google that presumably has more information. Sometimes the link to the restaurant's webpage isn't there either and I have to use yet another query (name of restaurant + location) to find the actual webpage. The point/complaint of the article is that Google's results seems to be less and less coming from the Web as their index and more and more from information sources that Google controls. Even though the change for the typical end-user might be small ("I can find the same stuff"), if continued, it signals a huge change in what Google is. It used to be a service to help you execute a text search over billions of documents, which I still think is a very neat thing to be able to do.

calebegg 13y ago
That's simply not true. When I click one of the carousel results, I get a search result for the exact restaurant, with their page at the top: Initial search: http://files.calebegg.com/sushi-search.png http://files.calebegg.com/sushi-search.png After clicking an item: http://files.calebegg.com/sushi-result.png http://files.calebegg.com/sushi-result.png At least use the damn feature before you join in bashing it.