Google’s Internal Menu System Tracks Googlers Food Preferences

A Googler shared screenshots of the output from the Google internal menu system where it told her that one day she avoids salades and then she must have had some salads to correct that and the next day it say she enjoys salad. I am just amazed Google tracks the food Googlers eat and offers suggestions.

Here are those tweets embedded:

Important update.

As much as I would like to be a conspiracy theorist and assume that my tweets are being monitored, seems the initial warning was just a bug. pic.twitter.com/FRbkw6QE0g

— Lara Levin (@TheLaraxSF) March 23, 2022

So… I think I have two preferences set on the menu… that I like soups and salads. I think the system inverted that to things I avoid. It is now fixed. Inadvertent shaming is over.

— Lara Levin (@TheLaraxSF) March 24, 2022

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Haha, I think it’s just “here are the menus for the day”, and it’ll show you things you might like most at the top. It’s not that fancy 🙂

— Lara Levin (@TheLaraxSF) March 24, 2022

To be clear, it doesn’t track you! You can set favorites. And there was a bug 🙂

— Lara Levin (@TheLaraxSF) February 2, 2023

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