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PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 9:25 pm    Post subject: Oh, how I miss Live Google Search! Reply with quote

Not that I want to go to Disney, but you'd surely expect TT Places to have this?



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 9:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Damn!!! I was looking on the Europe map!!! Embarassed Embarassed Embarassed
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

TT Local managed "No results" either for "The Henry Moore Foundation" OR "Perry Green" (the village it is in) when I tried to visit there last weekend.

When we had Google Local Search, it could find it straight away.


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Here are some other comparisons I tried earlier (Google on the left, TT Local Search on the right)....

"Swimming pool":



Google: Found 14 within 4 miles
TT Local: Found NONE within 4 miles Evil or Very Mad

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"Co-Op"



Google: Found 9 within 3 miles
TT Local: Found 4 within 3 miles (and missed the one at the top of my road Evil or Very Mad)

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"Ballet" (looking for my daughter's ballet classes)



Google: Found all the ones we knew about
TT Local: Pathetic! Evil or Very Mad

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"Maplin" (Maplin Electronics)



Google: Found 5 within 4 miles
TT Local: Found 1 (and how are we supposed to know where they all are? NO ADDRESSES!! Evil or Very Mad)

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"Wildfowl Trust" (Deliberately vague - they are actually called "The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust" but I wanted to see how they coped)

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Google: Found what I was looking for (but repeated it)
TT Local: 'Nuff said!!! Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I read on TT Discussions website somebody saying "It will improve over time". Well, it's had time since they dropped Google Search and I see no improvement. But TT still allow us to pay for Live Services.

When I first subscribed to Live Services (at £80 a year), I decided to do so mostly on the basis of Search - I wasn't convinced at the time by HD Traffic and the other stuff was rubbish.

So now the Search is rubbish and the HD Traffic has been throttled back. And I don't know how I did it, but my Live Services are valid until August 2014 - the GO550 doesn't look like it'll last that long anyway - nearly two years old and it's starting to reboot regularly like its predecessor!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Andy_P wrote:
TT Local managed "No results" either for "The Henry Moore Foundation" OR "Perry Green" (the village it is in) when I tried to visit there last weekend.

When we had Google Local Search, it could find it straight away.


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Here are some other comparisons I tried earlier (Google on the left, TT Local Search on the right)....

"Swimming pool":



Google: Found 14 within 4 miles
TT Local: Found NONE within 4 miles Evil or Very Mad

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FWIW Walton Pool at that address was shut down eons ago!
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 10:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not having Google is a real bummer; I can no longer find specific bus stops since Google was disabled. Navigating on foot to a bus stop in the far reaches of the UK is essential in my job, so I'm not happy. Also looked in Local Search for a taxi in Swindon, Witshire, the nearest listed was in Cirencester! Next to useless unless you want the obvious things like Tesco, Sainsburys etc.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Those examples are interesting where they do match, in that the distances are quite different. I wonder if that is due to one doing basic routing (but that would be very slow to show), or something else.

FWIW, I did a TomTom search for Beamish last night, and it knew it. Hurrah.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

emjaiuk wrote:
FWIW Walton Pool at that address was shut down eons ago!


It looks like TT are repeating fiasco that was the Petrol Prices search
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where do they get their info from? They can't steal all of it can they?
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 1:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I looked into it in detail a couple of years ago, a lot of theinfo SEEMED to be harvested from the lesser known search directories on the web... down to having the same errors and spelling mistakes!
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