Google Lens
product on 7 shows · 6 statements across 4 episodes · said 18 times in 9 episodes since 2019
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Stein: Google Lens visual searches grow year-over-year across billions of queries
“Google lens, one of the fastest growing products out there, it's growing. Year over year increase in visual searches, which is already like a massive scale. It's like billions and billions and billions of searching in that way.”
Reid: Future search will be fluid and multimodal, not purely conversational
“So I don't think use cases are all one or the other. I think we'll see people interact fluidly. I also don't think it's just text, right? You said, is it quick or not? We've rolled out search live in search labs with AI mode. We have lens that's continuing whe…”
Fox says combining Google Lens and AI overviews is 'doubly on fire'
“Lens is doing phenomenally well. The combination of Lens and AI reviews is, is doubly on fire.”
Chennapragada: 0-to-1 product building requires embracing chaos to avoid local hill climbing
“When you look at the solve stage,
There are wide lurches. You gotta be very comfortable with the fact that you're day one thinking about, hey, a plant detection tool, and then day 15, you're like, oh, actually, the tech is really good for translating, you know…”
Chennapragada: Category-defining products need two of three major market inflection points
“What I found both the hardware, I would say is that you do want to look for at least two out of these three factors inflection points here, if you want to make a really good product. Number one, is there a shift, is a step function in the tech, right?”