I'm a simple emigrant and I no longer trust German Google Maps

While leading companies are looking for where else to fit AI into their activities, and advanced SEO specialists are figuring out how to optimize sites for the new kind of search in the future, German companies don't even bother updating information in Google Business. Yes, in recent times, even in big cities it has noticeably gotten better. Sometimes you manage to Google it and find up-to-date information about a place, but mostly this concerns restaurants. And even then you never know for sure whether you can trust this information. Recently we went with colleagues for lunch — online everything worked, but on-site it was simply closed. No sign, no explanations. Well, someone just came up with it that way. Or recently a friend went to a yoga class, arrived at the place, and there was an announcement “today yoga will be at such-and-such address.” She went to the second address – and there was nobody there either and the door was closed. 🥴 The funniest situation happened to me several years ago. I really wanted to find a pool near home. I browsed the internet and found one, but something seemed suspicious to me. I know the area around my neighborhood well, and I didn’t remember any pools there where Google showed. I decided to go, just to be sure. I dressed immediately in a swimsuit, shorts and flip-flops, took a towel, and set out on my crusade. I arrive — and there stands a huge Deloitte office, and I’m there in flip-flops. The security guard looked at me, genuinely not understanding what I was doing there. Especially on Sunday. I say, excuse me, don’t you have a pool here? He probably has heard many strange questions in his life, but there is a feeling that I actually won this competition. There was no pool there, and I wandered in a swimsuit through the park and returned home, still not having swum that day. Therefore in Germany it’s better to call, come, peek into windows and hope for a miracle. Well, or at least not wear a swimsuit in advance. Have you had similar situations? #curiosities