Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Google Places Survey Challenge – Describe Places With One Word
Google has recently added a “Take our Survey” link to the Places page. I thought that it was a simple 2 question, rate your satisfaction survey with an optional third question (it actually goes on forever). But it was the third question that intrigued me: Describe Google Maps in one word.
I love Google Maps. I hate Google Maps. I find it exhilarating when it works and am continually frustrated by its quirks and oddities. I find it a challenge to understand and simple. It can help a business become successful and drive that same business to the the depths of despair. I am in awe and desperation.
ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
Ambivalent? For sure but that hardly captures my feelings in one word. I have trouble coming up with one word that describes the jambalaya of thoughts and feelings about Places.
My challenge to you: Describe Google Maps. Come up with one word that captures your sense of (sur)reality when it comes to Maps and Places!
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Ridiculosity
Three entries:
Essential
Sisyphean
Volatile
From @petrakraft: What about “bipolar” ? 🙂
Purgatory
My one word is “DontStopAtGoodEnough”. 🙂
irksome
From @w2scott: “clusterf#*$k”
From Scott Thomas on G+- Frusterful
What about “unpredictable” I think that pretty much sums it up!
Underachiever
Disambiguational – let me know if you need a real word.
@John
Yiddish, invented and German words are all accepted. Why Yiddish and German? They both have demonstrated the ability to capture a complex essence in a single phrase (think zeitgeist or the incredibly flexible “oy vey” or the subtlety complex “mitzvah”)…perhaps they have one that can capture this.
Mine was “ambivilation”.
MADDENING
INfamous. Think “Three Amigos”. It’s amazing – so famous, it’s IN-famous :), but so buggy and frustrating that is often infamous.
From G+ Sharon Oakley – capricious
@nightlitemedia: Profitable
#relativelyeasytospam (Is this twitter??) 😀
With a nod to its omnipresence:
Double-plus-good-ungood
from @MarketYourStore: underperforming
@golander59 promising
aqueous.
all the properties of water, it can please you, it can drown you, it possesses you, you drink it, it makes you pee.
Imfortunate
Broken
Rollercoaster
Isn’t there a yiddish word for when things are really messed up: fakakta?
Despondful – equal parts hopeful and despondent, although leaning more towards hopeful these days. 🙂
@Miriam… oooooh
@Keith then it would be hopondent?
This one from Perry is great!
“aqueous.
all the properties of water, it can please you, it can drown you, it possesses you, you drink it, it makes you pee.”
clusterf*ck
@RichardHornsby: #Betterrankfirst
@Mike, on Twitter you said describe Google Places, above I see describe Google Maps in 1 word, which I have a different word to describe Google Maps – “temperamental”
from G+ Sergey Zeygerman – Perma-Beta
@CliveHawkins Unmissable!
I have to agree with “unpredictable”!
knackering 😉
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Google Maps in one word – LOST
Yeah I meant it. Whenever I turn to Google Maps, it’s because I am lost. Good thing I have the app on my phone.
lacking
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