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by ctbellmar 305 days ago
I had some time for in depth experiments with it this summer and was disappointed. It gets the surface level details alright, but falls apart on any detailed work.

Examples that failed: - opening hours for POI (restaurants, tourist attractions, etc) - mostly made up - GPS coordinates - produced results that were nearly 100% inaccurate - finding contact info (e.g. phone, email) for specific government or public bodies - nearly 100% inaccurate

The issue with above was mainly not a lack of results but rather fabricated/made up ones. As in: here are the coordinates (that don't correspond to actual locations) or here are the phone numbers of such and such departments (that don't exist), creating more work to try and discover they are nonsensical vs. just giving "no results found" message.