@Stephanie
Hi Stephanie,
Hoping you can confirm that the rollout is a guest focused draw--which if I am booking as a guest I love the new widgets. But not particularly helpful for hosts. In fact, nothing in the video launch promotes benefits for hosting properties, though it does add new layers of guest protection--against what, exactly? Individual hosts face mounting challenges to providing short term stays at our properties, none of which Brian addresses in the rollout of new features.
If Machine Learning (ML / AI) is at work for us hosts, we need to understand the underlying data-based curation of spaces used to build the algorithm. It is not enough to suggest we take better pictures, we need to adjust our listings to meet different queries. We have a right to know the way data is used for guests to search potential bookings. And any differentiation between individual vs. property management hosting entities.
Don't get me wrong, I love choosing Airbnb properties as a guest and truly enjoy sharing my second home with this community. But as others have indicated, just a cursory search in the new environment suggests many properties don't fit the new categories, or at best list them far down the search pile.
Please respond with host specific guidance, respectful of all we do to keep the Airbnb engine churning.