How Google Maps is shaping where we eat.
Josh Toussaint-Strauss discovers that great restaurants are disappearing on Google Maps, despite having lots of reviews and high ratings, so he sets out to get to the bottom of it and finds out that what Google Maps shows us isn't necessarily what we want to see
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/mar/19/how-google-maps-is-shaping-where-we-eat-video?utm_source=globalmuseum #globalmuseum #googlemaps #restaurants
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Interesting criticism of Google, but deciding that one woman's website, who used AI to weight Google reviews in one city is the way to go rather than use, idk, OpenStreetMap, or yelp (though yelp may have it's own problems) to look for food is frankly bizarre.