but I didn’t use the word “flower”
Well, hopefully you’ve added an ALT text to the picture for all those visually challenged people out there - which then also helps search engines.
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MimicJar@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Search also sucks because people suck.
If I post a picture of a flower with the caption “Look what grew in my garden!”, that’s a terrible post from a search point of view.
Later on someone will search for “flower” but I didn’t use the word “flower” so now search sucks.
Of course a much more common post is someone posting a picture of text, from Twitter, Tumblr, etc. with, once again, a vague caption. You remember the picture, but not what the poster actually said.
Searching comments will sometimes help, but that depends on the comments being related.
mbirth@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
julian@community.nodebb.org 4 weeks ago
Does anyone remember way before Google had image recognition technology, the time they built a game that paired up random people on the internet, showed them each an image, and waited for them to both guess the same keyword?
It was gamified human powered taxonomy for meaningless internet points and it was hilarious (at the time.)
MimicJar@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Google Image Labeler apparently, but I don’t actually just remember the game. Looks like it’s called Crowdsource now, and you can get points, but it isn’t a competition.