I swear that with each update they’re adding more and more artificial stupidity
Just in case anyone wants this converted to freedom units, 9.792 km is 744 spindles, and 2,6 km is about 95 shackles. HTH
"Hey Google, find the nearest Burger King" - "Sure, here is one on the other side of the globe!"
Submitted 11 months ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Usually_Lurker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That would be approximately 48,188,975 and 12,795 bananas respectively, assuming 8 inch average banana length. What fruit are we using for scale over here anyways? I missed some committee meetings.
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fruit as the basis for a measurement system? That sounds ridiculous. Use barleycorns like the rest of us!
Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google Assistant is definitely getting worse and worse all the time. When the Google Homes first released they were actually pretty useful and handy. I was willing to pick a few up and they served a good purpose. They ran CIRCLES around Alexa and all those.
Now many years later, the devices don’t hear questions correctly, have to ask them four different times, they can’t even pick up my wife’s prompt words anymore, don’t even give reasonable answers when they do get the question right… It’s made hundreds of dollars worth of devices infuriating and useless.
I bought a product that worked. It no longer works because it’s been “updated”.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The worst part is that they’re still way better than Alexa. I hate the Google Home app; I can’t use the Alexa app.
Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, that’s still true as well. But it feels like one step ahead. Before it was in a totally different field. It’s gotten that much worse.
Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m so glad I’m not alone in this opinion. It’s absurd.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No, a lot of people recognize it has gotten worse, but the post is a device that doesn’t run off google assistant so it will end up off topic everywhere
Mothra@mander.xyz 11 months ago
It would have been amusing to see the route trajectory
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Everybody’s in here complaining but the app just wanted to show its user the rip in space and time it discovered just down the street.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And then you see the route trajectory making you turn into a river to flood your vehicle, or worse, have you turn onto a beach because the route trajectory goes right into the ocean like it thinks you are driving some sort of boat mobile.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google maps has been getting worse as well. I’ve been moving off after many years of using it.
Mothra@mander.xyz 11 months ago
What do you use? I tried OSM but found the navigation interface required too many taps on hidden menus to set up and to close. It’s easy to re route on the fly on Google and just tap finish when arrived, but that’s not the case for OSM.
machinin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sometimes I really struggle to understand how Google Maps works. I take some time finding the right area I want to search in, center the map in a very specific place, then search for a term or category and then it takes me to a completely different country to sit the results.
Rambomst@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It was doing this to me yesterday, kind of infuriating.
irotsoma@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fault of the crappy app you’re using, not Google.
mlg@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Isn’t this just gmaps search?
Which is also incidentally running on Android Auto which is also google?
bfg9k@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Magic Earth app on Android auto does this to me all the time, I’ll bring up a saved address that’s only a short drive away and it will say it’s like 2000km away until I actually start navigation.
Psythik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Try giving Android Auto the location permission and see if that fixes it.
Lionel@endlesstalk.org 11 months ago
Do you guys like Burger King? I stopped eating there a long time ago and feel no need to go back after the foot lettuce incident…
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 11 months ago
TIL that incident
LOL how you can post that on 4chan and think they won’t do everything to doxx you 😂
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I actually enjoy burger King but they are super unhealthy so I rarely go. Maybe once per year
RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Go on…
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Buurgeer king foot lettuce, the last thing you want in your Burger King burger is someone’s foot fungus
Blackmist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I find Burger King has the best pictures of the worst burgers.
Terrible food, even by the ultra low standards set by McDonald’s.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I swear it used to be possible to tell the assistant to navigate to the nearest [franchise] and it would understand it. How has it gotten so much worse over time?
bus_factor@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t know, but my guess would be people gaming the algorithms. Search results have also gone to shit after everyone SEO-ed them to death, and this is probably the same.
My favorite optimization is this restaurant in NYC called Thai Food Near Me:
TheWizardOfOdd@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
I remember that ten years ago you could tell it „Okay Google, bring me to [music festival]“ and it would reply „calculating route to [place where that festival is held]“ without problems. I wouldn’t bet on it still being able to do that.
match@pawb.social 11 months ago
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
generic@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
Deceptichum@kbin.social 11 months ago
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You didn’t say nearest to what…
Lem453@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It’s a GPS device. Why wouldn’t the default be closest to your current location?
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Because the local one didn’t pay as much for placement.
Davel23@kbin.social 11 months ago
That's the joke.
LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What we really need is c/SoftwareGore
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah it exists !softwaregore
ademir@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
You got so close!
!softwaregore@lemmy.world
deleted@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maybe you passed by a space tunnel somehow
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And then find out you are in Triangulum, the Galaxy known as M33, and wonder how the hell did you end up two million seven hundred thousand light years away.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just do what it says. Drive to Malaysia. But chances are you’ll pass a few burger kings on the way.
piranhaphish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s this the new GM infotainment system?
EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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Dewe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hey were you in Florence near the Piazzale Michelangelo?
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 11 months ago
WTF??? How did you extract that even if I censored it
isildun@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’m not the person who found that, but this is similar to the game Geoguessr. We have three useful data points: you are 2.6 km from Burger King in Italy, that BK is on a street called "Via " and you are 9792 km from Burger King in Malaysia.
- The upper BK in Malaysia is not censored, so we have its exact location.
- Find a place in Italy that is 9792 km away using the Measure Distance tool on something like Google Maps.
- Even though there are potentially multiple valid locations in Italy, we know you’re within 2.6 km of another BK. Florence is sensible because there are BKs near the 9792 km mark.
- Once we do that, we can find a spot that is both 9792 km from Malaysia BK and 2.6 km from a nearby BK on a street called “Via”, effectively finding where the image was taken.
It’s not perfect but it works well! This is the principle by how your GPS works, it’s called triangulation. We only had distance to two points and one of them doesn’t tell us the sub-kilometer distance. If we had distance to three points, we could find your EXACT location, within some error depending on how detailed the distance information was.
Dewe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes a bit lucky but just draw the 9xxx km circle around the MY BK and then I saw the circle go straight through Florence (also Bologna was a likely candidate). Then find a BK within 2.6 km with a fairly long street name and draw a circle, it intersects with the other circle in two places. The obvious one was the parking near Piazzale M.
I can also get the GPS coordinates at all times from your phone so it was easy to verify I was right.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Can also make guesses as to where you’re from as well bc not too many languages spell it Malesia
FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like to see Magic Earth being used in the wild. Didn’t think anyone else was using it lol.
CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Integer overflow? Seems kinda unlikely but just throwing possiblities out there…
YourBrainOnScience@lemmy.world 11 months ago
20 year old me would see that as an opportunity for an epic Harold & Kumar inspired road trip.
Quills@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Oh cmon, 9 thousand kilometers is just around the corner there /s
superbirra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
maybe the others on the way are closed
Graphy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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
squiblet@kbin.social 11 months ago
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.
sp451@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
And? Was it worth it? What did you order?
squiblet@kbin.social 11 months ago
Lillipad Cafe in Sydney, AU. I was going to order a kangaroo burger with deep-fried saltbush, but turns out they're closed :(
ShortFuse@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Same for me.
- 19 minutes detour
- 4 minutes detour
- 25 minutes detour
- 2 minutes detour
At this point, I’m convinced Google only cares about presenting what’s most profitable to them rather regardless of any sort of to the consumer.
It’s too far gone for it to be even usable.
SORT BY BOTTOM_LINEvsSORT BY BESTcallyral@pawb.social 11 months ago
how is this profitable for them
isildun@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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.
ShortFuse@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
kpw@kbin.social 11 months ago
I'm pretty sure they don't profit from sending you to another McDonald's.
Pratai@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I mean…. It’s Google. What do you expect?
affiliate@lemmy.world 11 months ago
well 9.792 km is a lot than 2,600 km. are you sure you aren’t in malaysia?
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 11 months ago
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
affiliate@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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
Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 11 months ago
That's Magic Earth Navigation & Maps and the results are that app's fault.
You can tell from both the app icon and it's the exact same Burger King logo it uses (Google Maps uses a different one).
Carighan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
OP blames Google for the crap the user installs. Lemmy attitude is always a good shield for large companies because it makes any complaint seem absurd by association.
CustodialTeapot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s sad that I was hoping for Lemmy to be a place to have a better vetting of comments by votes but its frankly worse than Reddit.
Its hive mind is sadly becoming less diverse and just up votes “LOL THIS THING BAD” with no sourcing or anything.
I’ve found myself sadly going back to Reddit more because the comments are just of higher quality and diversity of opinions.
NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fi 11 months ago
Yup lmao on my phone I got Malaysia as the first result while the others were nearby.
HootinNHollerin@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
I’ve had this happen to me on Google maps on iOS before