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-w...
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%C2%A0).
Cheers, Andreas
From: Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl To: commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 20:38 Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Commons search function vs. Google
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.
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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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