Fuck Google
27 Oct 2022 12:03![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nwhikerI despise Google.
And Google Maps even more so.
For years now, Google has had the wrong photo for my house. Our house is not visible from the street and instead of showing the gate, the photo showed our neighbor's house.
This has resulted in the police going to the wrong house and multiple missed deliveries, as well as people calling to say "uuuh?"
I've been trying for the past two plus years -once I became aware of the issue- to get Google to change the photo. I sent them the correct photo from their own site. Multiple direct messages on twitter, where they'd assure me it would be done "soon" and... nothing.
They told me while I was on vacay that it was done. Yay, thought I. I didn't check, though.
The first day of the FedEx debacle, I finally thought to check maps to make sure it really was corrected.
It was changed. To show my neighbor's neighbor's driveway rather than mine, thereby making the problem worse.
I did contact FedEx to tell this this and they still were unable to find the place three more times.
I have pointed out to Google Maps that they've... made the problem worse. So far, crickets.
And Google Maps even more so.
For years now, Google has had the wrong photo for my house. Our house is not visible from the street and instead of showing the gate, the photo showed our neighbor's house.
This has resulted in the police going to the wrong house and multiple missed deliveries, as well as people calling to say "uuuh?"
I've been trying for the past two plus years -once I became aware of the issue- to get Google to change the photo. I sent them the correct photo from their own site. Multiple direct messages on twitter, where they'd assure me it would be done "soon" and... nothing.
They told me while I was on vacay that it was done. Yay, thought I. I didn't check, though.
The first day of the FedEx debacle, I finally thought to check maps to make sure it really was corrected.
It was changed. To show my neighbor's neighbor's driveway rather than mine, thereby making the problem worse.
I did contact FedEx to tell this this and they still were unable to find the place three more times.
I have pointed out to Google Maps that they've... made the problem worse. So far, crickets.
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