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How Google Uses Artificial Intelligence to Fix Online Business Listings

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The hour-predicting model is fed by a variety of data, such as the business hours of other nearby shops, information from a business's website, and even Google Street View images of storefronts and any visible window signs that list its hours. It also considers when a business owner last manually changed hours and when its popular times--aggregated and anonymized location history data of customers visiting the business--are busiest. So one way Google can tell that business hours are inaccurate is if the busiest times occur when a business is supposedly closed.