Sometimes I wonder how many dumbass small businesses Google Maps has kept afloat by the mere fact that they surface user photos of the menus on their business listings.
It’s a double edged sword though because hours of operation are pretty unreliable if you don’t go to the business’ own website. I’ve been burned a bunch of times discovering that hours have changed since the last time that site was updated. Sometimes you can even see multiple different closing times for the same business (from like google, yelp, yellow pages, AI search response) and every single one is wrong.
I’ve been burned by that, too. My wife and I went to visit an historic house, and they clarified that they are actually only open in the summer - they only happened to be there because someone was looking at using it for a wedding. Google gave me the correct hours but didn’t take the season into account.
Pizza place nearby in college had a wrong number listed on their website. Fortunately the site’s header was a photo of the restaurant which included a neon sign of the correct phone number.
Sometimes I wonder how many dumbass small businesses Google Maps has kept afloat by the mere fact that they surface user photos of the menus on their business listings.
It’s a double edged sword though because hours of operation are pretty unreliable if you don’t go to the business’ own website. I’ve been burned a bunch of times discovering that hours have changed since the last time that site was updated. Sometimes you can even see multiple different closing times for the same business (from like google, yelp, yellow pages, AI search response) and every single one is wrong.
I miss the days when the future looked promising.
I’ve been burned by that, too. My wife and I went to visit an historic house, and they clarified that they are actually only open in the summer - they only happened to be there because someone was looking at using it for a wedding. Google gave me the correct hours but didn’t take the season into account.
Pizza place nearby in college had a wrong number listed on their website. Fortunately the site’s header was a photo of the restaurant which included a neon sign of the correct phone number.
Would be better if the average human knew how to fucking take photos.