Note: Not sure if the app or the service is to blame. But - disappointing:

From this afternoon. Wife and me are sitting in the sun at the Kikar Rabin/Rabin Square in (more or less) center Tel Aviv. She decides she'd like to have sushi. I pull up the Google Maps app, type sushi <enter>

Map zooms to the US and gives me recommendations in god-knows-where. I laugh it off, go back, search 'sushi bars'. Guess what it does? Riiight.

So this company _constantly_ throws Hebrew at me. After updating maps it showed the TOS in HEBREW (I .. cannot read that) on first launch. It certainly knows (and abuses. Certainly abuses. Abuses all the time..) geolocation. I have Latitude enabled the last weeks. GPS and Wifi were turned on and the map showed my current location quite accurate.

Why in the world would I want to know about Sushi places in the US?

That's certainly fixable (I could get somewhat better results with 'Sushi, Tel Aviv') but I think the gp hit similar idiotic behavior.

Unfortunately that just shows flaws in the Maps search algorithm and is unrelated to Google Maps vs. OSM for example.

Mostly my problem is that I don't use the UI properly. I hit return and don't select an option when they pop down. However, it does tend to come up with strange results:

Worbarrow Tout (has wikipedia page). If you are zoomed on the UK you get a selection of B&B's in the right general area.

Oxwich Burrows gives me a caravan park and a hall.

Both of these results have only one unambiguous meaning. Google gives me several results that are not correct.