On 18/02/18 18:04, Paul Johnson wrote:
OK, so what can we do about this problem? For example, go to Jenks,
Oklahoma. Search for Walmart. First result isn't the Walmart
Neighborhood Market across the street from the Riverside Market shopping
center. It's not even the Walmart Supercenter across from Oral Roberts
University. Or even the Walmart Neighborhood Market further from
downtown Jenks, but still in Jenks, over by Haddington Heights. The
results instead are in Sunset Harbor, Florida; Saint Louis, Missouri;
Tallahassee, Florida, El Paso, Texas; and Fairbanks, Alaska.
I get that if you get specific and actually type "Walmart jenks" in, you
get the one in Haddington Heights, and then the one in Glenpool,
Oklahoma (slightly odd for that one, but not entirely unreasonable).
But this isn't what most people are going to do. I also get that the
homepage isn't /meant/ to be used as the product itself, just a
demonstration, but we really should be putting our best foot forward there.
I can't comment about how the algorithm works because I don't know
anything about it. I'm just saying that we do tell it the viewbox
Tom
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