> I don't think they were very edge-y from what I remember... but I'll double check. And will get a screenshot if I disagree - maybe it's something about window size or display density.

For some reasons, the results drawn on the map are more numerous than the ones we show in the result list. I've raised an issue to investigate this. https://codeberg.org/cartes/web/issues/2480

> But if that category search is not enabled, why doesn't it find business name matches? And why are the results far outside the viewing window?

Good question. It's a Photon (our search API) problem as far as I know. We probably did set a local search ponderation too low for this use case.

In case the user chose the (default) "search here" option, we could also add a proximity ranking.

I do agree with your last big paragraph : we don't have Google's budget, hence the "search here" option which already solved lots of dead ends. Thanks a lot for this discussion !