Research projectPlatform live, formal study pending

POLARITY GPS

Recommendation surfaces what is popular nearby, not what exists. Polarity GPS is being built to measure that gap.

// the gap

Local discovery has converged on the same hundred places in every neighborhood. The maps know more than they show. What you find is filtered through what other people clicked.

Polarity GPS is a local discovery surface that holds back the popularity prior on purpose. We measure the difference between what the standard map returns and what an unweighted search returns. That difference is the suppression.

Platform is live. Formal study to follow.