People who say "they can just build their own search engine" should try Apple Maps.
Yeah, it's not bad, but from my 18 months in Google Maps, I know there's a very long tail you have to get through. They have huge teams working on problems so small you wouldn't even realize they were problems.
The first 90% of maps (or search) is easy. It's the 2nd and 3rd and 10th 90% that sucks up all the time.
Yeah, it's not bad, but from my 18 months in Google Maps, I know there's a very long tail you have to get through. They have huge teams working on problems so small you wouldn't even realize they were problems.
The first 90% of maps (or search) is easy. It's the 2nd and 3rd and 10th 90% that sucks up all the time.