On 18/06/14 11:13, Lars Aronsson wrote: > Why is it still, now in 2014, so hard to find images? > We have categories and descriptions, but we also know > they don't describe all that we want to find in an > image. If I need an image with a bicycle and some red > flowers, I can only go to the category:bicycles and > hope that I'm lucky when browsing through the first > 700 images there. Most likely, the category will be > subdivided by country or in some other useless way > that will make my search harder. > > Where is science? Google was created in 1998, based > on its Pagerank algorithm for web pages filled with > words and links. That was 14 years ago. But what > algorithms are there for finding images?
How do the commercial stock agencies do it? They have a much more similar problem to Commons than Google does. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
