Comments on: Is Siri Sick (of Local Search)? http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/10/29/is-siri-sick-of-local-search/ Developing Knowledge about Local Search Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:46:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mike Blumenthal http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/10/29/is-siri-sick-of-local-search/comment-page-1/#comment-584397 Mike Blumenthal Wed, 07 Nov 2012 01:39:11 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=13689#comment-584397 Maria

Off course there is an answer. Unfortunately it is one that you won’t like. Google has removed your listing from their index, rightly or wrongly.

Your only recourse is to communicate to them via the form on the Google for Business help pages and hope
1- that they agree to let you back in and
2- that they can find and recover your listings.

]]> By: Brandon http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/10/29/is-siri-sick-of-local-search/comment-page-1/#comment-584039 Brandon Thu, 01 Nov 2012 05:37:42 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=13689#comment-584039 I was under the impression that Siri’s local search is based off of MapQuest.

]]> By: Mike Blumenthal http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/10/29/is-siri-sick-of-local-search/comment-page-1/#comment-583938 Mike Blumenthal Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:54:19 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=13689#comment-583938 @Jeffrey
Never, never! I am hoping that the firings at Apple will get this squared away. :)

]]> By: Jeffrey http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/10/29/is-siri-sick-of-local-search/comment-page-1/#comment-583935 Jeffrey Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:54:12 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=13689#comment-583935 I guess its time to go back to using the phone book.

]]> By: Mike Blumenthal http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/10/29/is-siri-sick-of-local-search/comment-page-1/#comment-583926 Mike Blumenthal Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:02:35 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=13689#comment-583926 @Cleofe
It makes sense that they would integrate the two products more fully… Maps needs voice input from the likes of the Siri interface. It just is curious that Siri should be suffering although you are probably right that all hands are on the Apple Maps deck at the moment.

]]> By: Cleofe Betancourt http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/10/29/is-siri-sick-of-local-search/comment-page-1/#comment-583925 Cleofe Betancourt Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:47:50 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=13689#comment-583925 Since Siri launched, it has always been a “beta” product. Maybe, Apple is shifting its resources towards rescuing Apple Maps at the expense of it. They really don’t need both, so merging both products will likely be the end result.

]]> By: Mike Blumenthal http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/10/29/is-siri-sick-of-local-search/comment-page-1/#comment-583869 Mike Blumenthal Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:17:53 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=13689#comment-583869 @Dave
What is curious to me is that the results from Siri to Apple Maps are so different. Wouldn’t it make sense, like Google does with the main search results and G Maps, to present roughly the same data set for each?

Clearly Siri seems to have been “downgraded” at some level. I wonder why?

]]> By: Dave Foertsch http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/10/29/is-siri-sick-of-local-search/comment-page-1/#comment-583868 Dave Foertsch Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:36:32 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=13689#comment-583868 Tried out similar Siri searches here in Baltimore County, results are spotty though. Categories with poor results: hotels, bridal shops, electronics store, lawn furniture. Much better results: pizza, coffee shop, indian food, dry cleaner, grocer, marina, garden store.

Wonder how much feedback Siri sends to Apple. Would be interesting if bad results (not “local”) are fed back to engineering team for improvement.

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