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Google Lens is the first result you get on Google if you search “what is this”. It seems like Google Lens team SEOed their way to the top of Google search and
by alsodumb 3y ago
Google Lens is the first result you get on Google if you search “what is this”.
It seems like Google Lens team SEOed their way to the top of Google search and since Perplexity response works by using RAG with search engine content it responds with the info from the top search result plus some own context/hallucination lol.
- tentacleuno 3y agoYeah, it's convinced that it's Google Lens: > what's your name? > My name is Google Lens, and I am an image recognition technology developed by Google [...]
- s0rce 3y agoI asked what's your name and it said My name is Alex.
- chrisco255 3y ago"SEOed their way to the top" = rigged the search results internally at Google.
- lolinder 3y agoI have no idea why you're being downvoted, this was my first thought. There's no way that Google played by the same rules as everyone else to get to the top of a query like "what is this".
- quickthrower2 3y agoNope. Google is algorithm driven. There are no hard coded hacks.
- supafastcoder 3y agoI wonder how many people type “what is this” when they land on the Google homepage for the first time.