I swear that with each update they're adding more and more artificial stupidity
I like to see Magic Earth being used in the wild. Didn't think anyone else was using it lol.
I tried to see what interesting local variants they have in Malaysia and it honestly looks pretty good by American fast food standards:
That crunchy cheese one was a limited time thing here in the states. I had it once. Though I don't remember if it was actually at BK or another fast food place 🤔
I highly recommend it if you don't want to poop for 3 days.
I’m not sure what it is about car map searches but the suggested locations are always crap. My wife uses CarPlay and I’ll use that or android auto in my car. (So Apple Maps then google maps)
If you type like grocery into either of the maps from the dash then they’ll lose their goddamn minds and recommend some backwoods gas station instead of the local Kroger.
On our phones it’s totally fine but jfc the dash results
I was reading an Apple Maps “best restaurants” guide and it had a button to get Uber Eats from a restaurant listed as 7,900 miles away.
Same for me literally today. I know what was closest, but didn't want to deal with the "recalculating route", so I decided to ask Google to pick the nearest McDonald's as an extra stop:
At this point, I'm convinced Google only cares about presenting what's most profitable to them regardless of any sort of convenience to the consumer.
It's too far gone for it to be even usable.
SORT BY BOTTOM_LINE vs SORT BY BEST
how is this profitable for them
This might be a stretch but McD can be franchised. If one franchisee pays top dollar for ad placement and other nearby franchises don't, it would be profitable for them to send you to that franchisee even if it's further.
...that being said I'm probably reading too much into it. Probably just your usual Google jank.
Different locations can have different CPC (cost-per-click) bid configured. Even if you have multiple locations of a business, it's still managed per site. Different areas also have different CPC rates depending on who is around that location (not including your own businesses). For example, a metropolitan CPC rate is higher than a rural one because so many others compete with you.
That 25 minute one is near a bunch of other stores and I'd bet has a higher CPC rate. The 2 minute one is more isolated.
I checked and that all have about the same rating (3.5), so it shouldn't have been ranked by that. In the end, Google isn't picking what's best for the consumer, and enough to encourage me to go 20 minutes extra out of my way. Them being all the same franchise helps clarify it isn't an issue of finding a better search term match since they're all identically labeled the same.
I'm pretty sure they don't profit from sending you to another McDonald's.
well 9.792 km is a lot than 2,600 km. are you sure you aren’t in malaysia? /s
In my country, for the numbers, the dot and the comma are inverted in usage
9,600 => 9.600 and 2.6 => 2,6 and 9,600.6 => 9.600,6
Seems a nightmare but any software takes care of it since DOS, except on MacOS as apple in their infinite wisdom switched the dot with a comma in the numpad, so each time I type an IP address it comes out as 192,168,1,1 and makes me really mad
yeah the period/comma switch up has caused me some trouble while studying abroad (mostly by apple). the calculator app for example will show a period (to specify decimals), but pressing it will insert a comma (to specify decimals), despite my number formatting settings being set to use periods for decimals.
i probably should’ve added an /s to my comment
maybe it's the best burger king in the world and worth figuring out how to drive to Malesia for lmao.
I mean…. It’s Google. What do you expect?
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