I recently bought the latest Panasonic KX-TSC62SX corded telephone.
I found something interesting about this phone that prompted me to use it in a blog post regarding different pricing methods.
While I could have always photographed the handset at home, I thought it might be easier to source a picture online.
I went to Google Images and ran a search of this phone by its model number. I couldn’t find a single picture of this phone for as long as I scrolled. Since Google Images uses jQuery Infinite Scroll, you can never be sure how long it’d take to reach the end of the page.
On the other hand, I found my own mug shot appearing as the first image!
Imagine the mighty Google conflating me with a phone!!
That was not to be. When I clicked on the image, I was taken to my post about this phone on Twitter:
@PanasonicDirect Just installed a new Panasonic KX-TSC62SX phone. I’ve bought several Panasonic phones before but this is the first model that doesn’t need batteries or adapter. Great stuff. Hope it works fine!
Google Images must have taken the text of my tweet – including the phone’s model number – as tags for my Twitter profile picture, which is how it might have decided to display my picture in its results (Full Disclosure: Apart from being a proud owner of this phone, I’ve no relationship with it or its manufacturer).
Unlike TinEye which searches for images using images, I’m aware that Google Images searches for images based on textual keyword tags. To that extent, it was obvious that my picture would appear somewhere on the Google Images SERP (Search Engine Results Page).
But #1 position? That was surely strange, yet familiar!