Google Maps for iOS Updated With 'Match' Customized Restaurant Recommendations

They recommendations have been pretty decent in testing.

 

Just more Google collecting info on us down to what we eat.....no thanks. :thumbs down:

 

Exactly. I de-googled my iPhone long time ago.

 

Yeah. The recommendations have been pretty decent and surprisingly diverse. Helps when the wife and I want to eat different things. We end up with her recommendations, but hey.

 

Google, what do I want to eat?
Google, where am I?
Google, who am I?

 

And yet I still can't navigate to my fourth most recent destination in the mobile app.

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It might just be the basic recommendation algo Netflix and many others use: Look at what you went to, find people who went to the same places, and recommend things to you that those people also went to. With some buckets for location. That one is simple and works great.

They don't need to collect or store any identifying info for that, nor do you have to give them the identifying info in the first place (if you use a fake name on your Google account like you definitely should).

 

Interesting.

Now for CarPlay.

 

My thoughts exactly. I've been slowly de-Googling my life. Happy to see Apple maps is improving.

 

I want my Maps apps to just show me maps and how to get to where I want to go.

When I'm looking for restaurants, I use Yelp or Opentable.

 

When I'm looking for food, I always search "food" or "restaurant" or "lunch" in Google Maps, so this is helpful for people like me that don't use apps like Yelp or Opentable.

 

More data-mining from Google. No thanks. They can go screw themselves.

 

They don't have to but from business perspective it would be absolute unreasonable for them not to.

 

If that's the case (not sure, check the EULA), they're already collecting the data, with or without the recommendation system.

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But Yelp is awful, both the UI and the system.

 

They are not collecting my data. I don’t use gmail, google search, Android, google docs, google drive. I also block google scrips in my browser and no I don’t use chrome. I also use native apps made by apple and any non native apps I carefully read their terms and conditions to make sure nothing gets shared with google or Facebook.

 

I don't find that to be the case, but you're welcome to have that opinion if you wish.

 

So you don't use Google Maps, same here. That's beside the point. I was replying to
> Just more Google collecting info
Point was the implementation of this recommendation system doesn't indicate that they're collecting any more info than they were before.