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by m_st 3219 days ago
Full ACK, the search should be contextual, but I get US results in Switzerland! Or when I search for "Train station", then I expect it to suggest me the closest ones until I continue refining my search. But I get results from other countries or that are very far away. Also "Train station <city>" doesn't always give the same result as "<city> train station".
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_nalply 3219 days ago
Once I searched for a métairie in the French speaking Jura mountains (a métairie is a mountain hut offering food and rest) and got Metairie, LA.
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zimpenfish 3219 days ago
It seems to have a real blind spot about "things" - almost like you have to get the exact rendering of the name they have because there's no semantic labelling.

e.g. "X station" often wouldn't find "X train station" or "X underground station"; same for "X tube" in London (although both of these have improved for me on 11b8.)

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