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God, I love sending bug reports to Google Maps. It feels so neighborly, so cordial, and yet so passive-aggressive. >:D
But look at this shit. This is why I have to giggle at people who try to navigate without ever looking up from their phones. Google literally can not see things that are RIGHT THERE. https://goo.gl/maps/a1Jf7gfUdBt
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@zebratron2084 yep, that's what I'm seeing--map shows a street location with a shopping card under "Produkty" label, search shows "Maps can't find Produkty"
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@green Yup. My poor confused newbie coworker lost like two hours of effort on that, plus the hour I spent trying to correct it.
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I see a successful search for a "Mysprzedajemy Polski Produkty"
in Garfield NJ
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@001zlnv *blinkblink* Seriously?
Good lord. This is pretty much what I was afraid was happening. We've been having problems, as you can imagine, with our Indian team seeing TOTALLY DIFFERENT RESULTS THAN WE DO for the exact same search links. Because Google, you know, "loves to help."
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@zebratron2084 yep. seriously, even though the map is in russia, it showed me a polish grocery in new jersey
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@001zlnv Oh my god.</h_jon_benjamin>
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google thinks pirogi is the important part of this search
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@001zlnv Ahhh, NOW I see the inescapable connection. XD
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@zebratron2084 @001zlnv "will just run their eyes." wat
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@green @001zlnv I think we can chalk that one up to Artificial Stupidity too. :> #InvisibleIdiots
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@001zlnv @zebratron2084
I'm... not seeing the issue, here...
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@001zlnv Thanks, BTW, you are now an official Junior HERE.com Geography Ranger. :D
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@kauko I don't know what it would show for a Russian user! We've been having a lot of trouble with the same link displaying inconsistent results user-to-user.
And yeah, I noticed that! I asked the Maps team if that name might be autotranslated and not showing up in the actual database, or some funky thing... but honestly, I really only understand Maps at the consumer, not developer, level. :>
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@Balinares This is apparently normal, and I'm very cross at Google right now over it, because this "feature" wasted several hours of one of my coworkers time...
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@Balinares Nah, I really appreciate it, but I think my note to the help team is all the effort I want to put into Google this morning. ;) Fortunately, this is not something I actually have to _resolve_ -- it just came up while doing worker evaluations, so luckily the harm was already done long before I got there. ;)
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(Also, if you happen to see anything except a failed search for "Produkty" right over a building labeled "Produkty," you'd be doing me a huge and very practical favor if you'd let me know. :) )