2008/9/18 Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com:
The trick is figuring out the good tree-top to go to as a starting point, which is not easy because it depends on your goal and you also need to be fairly familiar with the category tree and naming conventions to begin with.
I've been using search on commons a lot lately (source pics for http://notnews.today.com/ ), and I can assure you that finding stuff sucks even just in English.
"Wikimedia Commons - it's like Getty Images but the search really sucks ..."
- d.