On 2018-02-18 19:28, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 18/02/18 18:04, Paul Johnson wrote:
OK, so what can we do about this problem? For example, go to Jenks,
Oklahoma. Search for Walmart. First result isn't the Walmart
Neighborhood Market across the street from the Riverside Market
shopping center. It's not even the Walmart Supercenter across from
Oral Roberts University. Or even the Walmart Neighborhood Market
further from downtown Jenks, but still in Jenks, over by Haddington
Heights. The results instead are in Sunset Harbor, Florida; Saint
Louis, Missouri; Tallahassee, Florida, El Paso, Texas; and Fairbanks,
Alaska.
I get that if you get specific and actually type "Walmart jenks" in,
you get the one in Haddington Heights, and then the one in Glenpool,
Oklahoma (slightly odd for that one, but not entirely unreasonable).
But this isn't what most people are going to do. I also get that the
homepage isn't /meant/ to be used as the product itself, just a
demonstration, but we really should be putting our best foot forward
there.
I can't comment about how the algorithm works because I don't know
anything about it. I'm just saying that we do tell it the viewbox
It appears to me that the bounding box is used when searching places
(towns, cities) or streets, but not when searching objects like shops or
restaurants.
For instance, searching for a McDonald's always gives me the McDonald's
at 1351, George Dieter Drive, El Paso City, El Paso County, Texas,
79936, Verenigde Staten van Amerika
Maarten
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