Maarten,
That sounds like the most plausible answer to me to date. We know that sexual images are among the most popular in Commons.
Some similar searches:
Underwater:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=u...
(The bondage image is not among the first 50 in Google with safe search off).
Jumping ball:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=J...
(That image is first in Google as well, even with strict safe search enabled.)
This is something the personal image filter would (in part) address. We could also have a look at our search algorithm.
Andreas
________________________________ From: Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl To: commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 21:04 Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Commons search function vs. Google
Hi Andreas,
Op 11-10-2011 17:22, Andreas Kolbe schreef:
Why is our listing so different from the one in Google, and why are sexual images so much higher up in our listing of search results?
My assumption is that the popularity (either incoming links or number of clicks) might be taken into account. See http://stats.grok.se/commons.m/top to see what people like to click on on Commons and cross reference that with the images that show up high in the search results.
Maarten
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