I swear that with each update they're adding more and more artificial stupidity
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).
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.
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.
Yeah it's a very very one-sided community, especially in regards to companies and governments and so on. And it's not like there's not a lot to complain about, but people here freely apply the same broad strokes they complain about on reddit et al. And that in turn shields problematic stuff from criticism because all criticism is so absurd and overdone.
There's just little nuance in online discussions in general, and less so here. Partially of course becuase of how small Lemmy is.
Yup lmao on my phone I got Malaysia as the first result while the others were nearby.
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
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".
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.
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 show the results.
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…
TIL that incident
LOL how you can post that on 4chan and think they won't do everything to doxx you 😂
I actually enjoy burger King but they are super unhealthy so I rarely go. Maybe once per year
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.
Try giving Android Auto the location permission and see if that fixes it.
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?
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:
You didn't say nearest to what...
It's a GPS device. Why wouldn't the default be closest to your current location?
Because the local one didn't pay as much for placement.
Some guy in Malaysia:
That's the joke.
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
What we really need is c/SoftwareGore
Yeah it exists !softwaregore
Edit: I don't know how to do the magic linking thing but https://lemmy.world/c/softwaregore
Just do what it says. Drive to Malaysia. But chances are you'll pass a few burger kings on the way.
Integer overflow? Seems kinda unlikely but just throwing possiblities out there...
Oh cmon, 9 thousand kilometers is just around the corner there /s
maybe the others on the way are closed
I like to see Magic Earth being used in the wild. Didn't think anyone else was using it lol.
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
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