For us mortals what is OCR and is this bad or good?
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Optical Character Recognition. It is good because it extracts text from images, which allows you to more easily search through your images. It is bad because: 1. Privacy - more data for Google to store about you 2. Most people don’t know Google is doing this with their images
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Google once again deftly riding the line between "ooooo that's so creepy" and "oooo that's so useful".
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Knew long back
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It caught me by surprise a few times. Like "why is that conversation in these search results?!". Oh, yeah, they do do that… I've yet to see it giving me useful search results that I would have missed otherwise though…
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Even Twitter OCRed and displayed an unit conversion in my feed.pic.twitter.com/rFjXqDuEro
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Interesting! I think the next thing I'll discover will be Google decoding my Resumé stored in drive and giving recommendations for what roles fit me the best

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@HireWithGoogle ftw
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I hope Google didn't OCR my passport and social security card I just emailed my new employer.
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Gmail is now judging me silently for the huge number of Ancient Aliens memes that I send out to all my friends.
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