Maarten,
The problem to solve is that people who are looking for an image of a cucumber
or a children's toy
may not appreciate being presented with an image where the item in question is
used for masturbation.
I asked Brandon about the search algorithm; he told me he had just answered the
same question here:
http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-second-image-returned-on-Wikimedia-Commons-when-one-searches-for-electric-toothbrush-an-image-of-a-female-masturbating
There are some comments from Pete Forsyth at that link as well; he noted that
the same search results
also appear for multimedia searches in the Wikipedias
(e.g. http://www.webcitation.org/62OEEbIub ).
Cheers,
Andreas
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>From: Maarten Dammers <maar...@mdammers.nl>
>To: commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>Sent: Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 20:38
>Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Commons search function vs. Google
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>
>Hi Andreas,
>
>Op 11-10-2011 23:36, Andreas Kolbe schreef:
>Maarten,
>>
>>
>>That sounds like the most plausible answer to me to date. We know that sexual
>>images are among the most popular in Commons.
>>
>>
<knip>
>>
>>This is something the personal image filter would (in part) address. We could
>>also have a look at our search algorithm.
That sounds like a solution to a problem, but you didn't actually state the
problem. What's the problem you're trying to solve?
>
>Maarten
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