Maarten,
That sounds like the most plausible answer to me to date. We know that sexual
images are among the most popular in Commons.
Some similar searches:
Underwater:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=underwater&fulltext=Search
(The bondage image is not among the first 50 in Google with safe search off).
Jumping ball:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=Jumping+ball&fulltext=Search
(That image is first in Google as well, even with strict safe search enabled.)
This is something the personal image filter would (in part) address. We could
also have a look at our search algorithm.
Andreas
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From: Maarten Dammers <maar...@mdammers.nl>
To: commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 21:04
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Commons search function vs. Google
Hi Andreas,
Op 11-10-2011 17:22, Andreas Kolbe schreef:
>
>Why is our listing so different from the one in Google, and why are sexual
>images so much higher up in our listing of search results?
>
My assumption is that the popularity (either incoming links or number of
clicks) might be taken into account. See http://stats.grok.se/commons.m/top to
see what people like to click on on Commons and cross reference that with the
images that show up high in the search results.
Maarten
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