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This is the difference between airbnb and google. Google would have Hal Varian look at this. Airbnb has a music major re-invent the wheel (not sure if the manag
by throw42 11y ago
This is the difference between airbnb and google. Google would have Hal Varian look at this. Airbnb has a music major re-invent the wheel (not sure if the managed to re-invent the whole thing).
There is a whole field of study called pricing mechanisms. For example, second price auctions work well because of a reason.
- lqdc13 11y agoWhy attack Airbnb for trying out a new approach? Also, Google is not that great at some things they do. For example, Google is somehow much worse at navigation than Waze even though they were at it for much longer and had tons of data. Now they even have Waze data and are still worse at it than Waze.
- dajohnson89 11y agoIs it just me, or is google maps even worse than Apple maps at this point?
- nnd 11y agoI think Google maps has some top-notch turn-by-turn navigations. One thing I particularly like is how detailed the voiceover is, i.e. recommends you a lane to stay in, etc This is one thing i wish Waze would be better at, because overall it seems like it's able to find faster routes than Google, although sometimes I wonder if it's only perceived, due to the way they gasify it. Apple maps are absolutely horrible in turn-by-turn. Either I'm driving too fast, or the turn announcement is way too close.
- Dowwie 11y agoso what you are saying is that someone with a creative background also managed to do non-trivial data science work that affects more than a million decisions made? I admire that, a lot, actually.