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So when the other diner came in wearing Google Glass, management asked her to take them off before dining. She refused, and left the restaurant. [
] On April 20, the diner wrote a post about what happened, which apparently angered some of her 3,000-plus Google+ followers.
Around this time the spate of reviews arrived on Google. Feast looked into this, and discovered that all of the one stars are from people who commented on the diners original Google+ post. The negative reviews include lines such as: Ignorant bigots and hateful. Perhaps being illegally discriminate too. The food is irrelevant as the service is less than poor. The reviewer lives in Phoenix. [
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When the first thing that comes up when you search Feast in Google is a 3.1, it can really hurt a restaurant like us. Then you have 13 people, which is about half the total reviews, who have never been to our restaurant let alone live in NYC, leave you one-star reviews
its malicious and technically a violation of Googles own terms for leaving reviews, the Feast manager said. Again I can understand her leaving the one-star based on her experience, but 12 others with no experience on who we are or what we do is unfair.
http://evgrieve.com/2014/05/a-google-glass-feast.html
From Daring Fireball:
Its a perfect storm of Google-ism. Glass users are weirdos. They also tend to be users of Google Plus. They vent/lash out on Google Plus when an establishment even respectfully asks them not to wear Glass. Google web search shows the establishments Google Plus profile as its top search result.
Whats troublesome here isnt Glass. Its Googles favoritism for Google Plus. If Google Plus were an independent company, theres no way Google web search would give it such prominent placement.
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/05/23/glassholes-feast
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)Because nobody else gives a shit.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)quinnox
(20,600 posts)Google sticks it as a link in most browsers these days. They are really obnoxious about pushing google plus in all their products too.
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Brigid
(17,621 posts)Privacy. I understand there is an app for it that can use facial recognition software to provide the user with a lot of personal information if they look at you. If that doesn't creep you out, I don't know what to say to you.