On 9/14/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 13/09/2007, Desilets, Alain
<Alain.Desilets(a)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote:
One comment about the user interface of your
prototype. It's too focused on the query words, and not enough on the images.
It's not my prototype, but I agree, the interface is very clunky, in
English at least. They could streamline it a lot more. Make reasonable
assumptions (like: person using English interface inputs English
words), but let people "undo" those assumptions if they want.
OK, my usual cheap hack:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/cigs.php
Splits your search query into words, checks wikipedia language links
for that word, constructs a google image search from it.
No autodetect for language (too lazy). Only uses the four (politically
incorrectly labeled) languages, which was necessary for google search
not to blow up on 50 different words, times two or three...
Also, you have to write "title style". Try German, "Hund schwarz"
(nor
"schwarzer Hund", as you would write natively), an you will actually
get images of black dogs on the wikis.
Google word grouping sometimes doesn't work as expected, though. Does
Yahoo work any better?
Magnus