{"id":1477,"date":"2010-09-17T21:02:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T04:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deathgleaner.wordpress.com\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2014-01-31T14:17:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T22:17:29","slug":"gmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/gmap\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps search suggestions suck."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geoffliu.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/google_maps_search.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1479\" style=\"margin-right:1em;\" title=\"google_maps_search\" src=\"http:\/\/geoffliu.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/google_maps_search.png?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a>Google Search suggestions are supposed to help you search faster, not clutter your space with a bunch of irrelevant search terms. While suggestions have worked well for Google Search and Google Image Search, they have proved a complete failure with Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, people already know what they&#8217;re looking for when they go to <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/\">maps.google.com<\/a>, especially if they&#8217;re trying to find a specific address. However, the suggestions just <em>have<\/em> to get in the way and display five totally irrelevant suggestions. I could imagine how suggestions would be useful when searching for a business like &#8220;pizza near chicago il&#8221;, but that&#8217;s one of the few times it&#8217;s only slightly useful.<\/p>\n<p>So, Dear Google, please turn off Google Maps search suggestions. Thanks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-1477\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">37.423176<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">-122.085962<\/span><\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Search suggestions are supposed to help you search faster, not clutter your space with a bunch of irrelevant search terms. While suggestions have worked well for Google Search and Google Image Search, they have proved a complete failure with Google Maps. First of all, people already know what they&#8217;re looking for when they go to maps.google.com, especially if they&#8217;re &#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Google Maps search suggestions suck.: http:\/\/wp.me\/px35l-nP","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[97,28],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2Zt3y-gmap","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4304,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/4304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}