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Re: Search all text in New York City

#91
post #75

This would be an interesting additional layer for google maps search which I often find to be lacking. For example, I was recently travelling in Gran Canaria and looking for places selling artesan coffee in the south (spoiler: only one in a hotel which took me almost half an hour to even find). Searching for things like "pourover" and "v60" is usually my go-to signal but unless the cafe mentions this in their descrip…

Seems like searching for V60 would get you a lot of Volvos! Is anyone photographing these words in coffee shops that would let them be surfaced here?

Yeah, that can be somewhat of a problem in bigger cities ;-) It's pretty common for people to have taken a photo of the menu in cafes but as mentioned it seems google isn't ingesting or surfacing that information for text search.

Re: Search all text in New York City

#93

This is exceedingly fun. A game: find an English word with the fewest hits. (It must have at least one hit that is not an OCR error, but such errors do still count towards your score. Only spend a couple of minutes.) My best is "scintillating" : 3.

Sloth returned surprisingly many results, 92 Deviant returned 5 (cmon NY, do better) Sherpa five but two false positives, two Gap ads about Sherpa fleece, two genuine including Sherpa consulting which seems pretty niche Defenestrate got zero

Re: Search all text in New York City

#98
post #79
post #63

Interesting how they censor the word "fuck" like it's going to affect your brain if you read it fully spelled or something

SEO, or family friendly values (maybe both!). Related: no swearing in the first minute of YouTube videos.

That's been changed (again). Iirc most swear words are now fine wherever they are in the vid.

Re: Search all text in New York City

#100
Surprisingly I can't seem to find any doors with notices from the sheriffs department or building department embarrassingly plastered on them. Am I misremembering how these are phrased verbatim or are certain things censored?
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