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-…
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 ).
Cheers,
Andreas
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From: Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl>
To: commons-l(a)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.
>
>
<knip>
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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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