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Google Menu and Algorithmic Weirdness

Sometimes, the internet can be very funny

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Addison Del Mastro
Aug 23, 2021
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Google has a feature, which is easiest to view on mobile, where it will show you the “menu” for a restaurant by displaying photos from reviews and pulling or generating captions for them.

It seems to work well enough for restaurants with actual menus. But I’ve discovered that for all-you-can-eat buffets, it is often spectacularly and humorously mistaken.…

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