2008/9/18 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
2008/9/18 Brianna Laugher
<brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com>om>:
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.
--
geni