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Google, with their map products used on phones, websites and via their web search, is in a far better position to supplant yelp/trip advisor etc, because they h
by grey-area 12y ago
Google, with their map products used on phones, websites and via their web search, is in a far better position to supplant yelp/trip advisor etc, because they have much more data than someone like foursquare; they have visits, searches, route requests worldwide and also the POI data which they are encouraging people to use and enter for them.
- thomasfoster96 12y agoFoursquare has a substantial amount of 3 of those 4 data sources - and with Swarm, the potential to continuously improve those data sources quicker than Google has been able to. Route requests probably aren't that interesting to someone trying to supplant Yelp - if you were trying to supplant TripAdvisor you might want travel bookings, but that's a case of connecting to the users email account (with their permission) and grabbing the lovely JSON encoded tickets and booking details.
- makeset 12y agoThey are in that position, yet Maps is still unusable without the mandatory two clicks every time to "Return to classic" and Google Reviews is but a stunted afterthought. Plenty of time for competitors to grow while waiting for Google's interface design to come out of that coma.