[Google Maps API] Mixed results on Google Maps API

[hilmanski]

A customer reported that our Maps API returned mixed results when searching for a certain area.

This sample shows mixed results from Austin and Louisiana.

Internal links: Intercom | Search Inspect

probably related to https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/850

[alexbarron]

I encountered this issue while investigating a related issue for an Enterprise customer.

Searching with New York coordinates with query "coffee in london" returns mixed results. Previously this would have only returned results for London as the query text would fully override the GPS coordinates.

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[oceansize]

Affected customer:

Intercom

[marm123]

We have another customer reporting this:

Intercom

Based on @dsojevic comment in https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/636#issuecomment-2463700373, I believe there is not much we can do, but I'm not 100% sure this is the same case.

I suspect the only way to resolve this, or at least reduce the severity in difference of region for results shown, would be to try and match proxies with the ll parameter passed in, but I don't think it would be worth it or feasible.