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by protomyth 3900 days ago
To give a simple example:

"nearest gas station" - Google gives 3 in the next town over, but skips the tribally owned one (which is $.05 cheaper) that you pass on the way to the ones listed.

Siri gives one station 10 miles away that you pass 4 stations to get to.

"nearest grocery store" - Google gets this one correct listing the two on the reservation and the closest one in the next town.

Siri skips both on the reservation and directs you to the one in the next town. You need to drive by one of the two on the reservation to get to it.

Phone book yellow pages has all of them listed.

This is the easy stuff. Asking about oil changes and tires is pretty bad.

// Siri and Weather.app on iOS is actually incapable of finding the town by zip code or name and give results "Not Found" or more bizarrely a town in New York state even though it correctly interpreted North Dakota. It also gives Fargo listings for Jamestown. Google keeps giving the college location I work at as in a town 40 miles from here.

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I have one more to add. I had to drive from New Rockford ND to 4 Bears Casino in New Town ND on Friday. I know how to get to New Town[1], but have never gone to the casino[2]. I search Siri for "4 Bears Casino New Town North Dakota" and get nothing. I then type its address (which I am confirming as I post) "202 Frontage Rd, New Town, ND 58763" into Maps.app. It then shows a place in Connecticut (different state and different zip code).

1) do not go through Minot no matter what the GPS says

2) a lot of meetings are held at various tribal casinos since they all have a lot of conference rooms and are convenient to the hotel that is almost always built next to the casino.