Google Maps Causing Frustration in Users and Developers
June 4, 2014
The article Google Maps Has Forsaken Us on TechCrunch details the piling anecdotal evidence against Google Maps. The article is nostalgic for an easier time (before Google upgraded) when searching Google Maps for a given location returned the location desired. Something happed when the latest version was released, and it wasn’t good. New search guidelines that are unknown to users make it more difficult rather than more intuitive (for example, having to specify the country.)
“I suppose one possible culprit is Google’s increasing use of large-scale distributed deep networks. (PDF) Such networks are, by their nature, black boxes whose outcomes cannot be traced to any particular algorithm or line of code. Maybe I’m just unlucky enough to be an outlier who keeps running into anomalous outcomes, which have actually improved for the vast majority of users. Maybe. But I doubt it.”
The article lists a few instances of reported bugs and issues that Google has yet to address. One dates all the way back to 2009, a report by a developer having trouble with his or her Android. The article makes some outlandish guesses as to what is going on with Google Maps, but ultimately comes to the conclusion that it is a mysterious multi-billion dollar company with mysterious ways.
Chelsea Kerwin, June 04, 2014
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