2008/9/18 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2008/9/18 Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com:
The trick is figuring out the good tree-top to go to as a starting point, which is not easy because it depends on your goal and you also need to be fairly familiar with the category tree and naming conventions to begin with.
I've been using search on commons a lot lately (source pics for http://notnews.today.com/ ), and I can assure you that finding stuff sucks even just in English.
"Wikimedia Commons - it's like Getty Images but the search really sucks ..."
- d.
To a large extent the english wikipedia remains the best commons search engine.
If you were actually looking to build a commons search engine at this time you would certainly use the way the images are used in the various wikis as one of the key driving factors for finding and sorting results.