Google search

[dmcconachie]

Does anyone else get really flaky Google results when using search within the client?

I'm lucky if I get 1 google result despite there being several via a native search on google.com or maps.google.com. Also seems to be the case that repeating a search can eliminate the one result I did previously get!

This is not new to recent versions (beta or RC)

[dmcconachie]

I still get the odd one pop up occasionally! Virtually useless though! Sooner we utilise foursquare's poi database the better!!

[dmcconachie]

I've changed my phone from nokia(symbian) to samsung(android). Having done few search and found it has bing rather than google.

Nothing to do with the phone change though

[gettingthere]

I have been having issues with Drive To: and entering a POI name where I expect Google Search results also. Many times I enter a POI name that I know for sure exists with Google, and in fact I had found previously. Sometimes entering the exact same thing a second time finds a result, sometimes not. It is very hit or miss and unreliable.

Since Waze has basically zero POI's in the map info and street addresses in the map data are not so great, we really need the Google search to function properly to be able to route to POI's. Since Google returns that actual GPS coordinates, it usually works out much better than if you have the actual street address.

This seems to be an issue with the way that Waze is querying the info from Google. Not sure if the Waze application can query Google directly or whether the search is being proxied though the Waze servers.

Sometimes I can find the POI if I enter additional information with the POI business name such as the street name. In any case I have used the same Google search functionality in both the Tom Tome and Navigon iphone applications. It works as expected there. Results every time.

One example that fails. I type:

'7-Eleven'

Finds nothing. There are 7-Elevens all over the place. But if I type '7 Eleven' withouth the -, it finds them.

Another example - I search for 'Black Angus' multiple times today, finds nothing. This restraurant is less than 3 miles from the place where I am searching for it. I look in my recent destinations and the result is there from the same search last week. Google result. And yes, I do have an active connection to the Waze server when I am searching.

[gettingthere]

Of course the day after I post about Google Search not working well, Waze changes to Bing !

Hopefully it will work better.

[leocylau]

I thought Google seach has gone since last year. I used to have it in the very early version of waze on my phone. BTW, my phone is Nokia 5800XM (Symbian).

[leocylau]

I've changed my phone from nokia(symbian) to samsung(android). Having done few search and found it has bing rather than google.

[leocylau]

hmm...is waze ditching google and use bring instead as what they did on cartouche?