On 12/08/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
The site I suggest we target is Getty images. http://www.gettyimages.com/ Try their search with an image in mind, like "black child reading a book". There is no reason we can't do even better than they do. The software isn't even hard, we just need to make a commitment to doing tagging right and doing it diligently.
Wasn't the problem that queries on category intersections suck mud in MySQL? (But work very fast in Postgres. Thus demonstrating the superiority of MySQL. Hold on, I'll come in again ...)
But yes, a tagging system is necessary.
- d.