Sometimes I Don’t Understand Google Image Search…
Monday, March 30, 2009
Follow up to: A Hopeful Search for the Internet
Ever since I posted the following image, I’ve been waiting very patiently for it to creep onto Google Images. I’m already the number one Google Web hit (out of 6!) for “daleks on skis” and the number two hit out of 3770 for the same without quotation marks, daleks on skis. It seems like this should be ranking high on Google Images, right?:
Who wouldn’t want this image on Google?
However, when we do a google search for daleks on skis, the following appears: (PS: Here’s the Wikipedia entry on Daleks if you have no idea what they are.)
The circled images aren’t even Daleks! And there are exactly zero skis!
Narrowing down to dalek on ski reveals slightly more Daleks, but still no skis and none of my pictures! So what now? What happens when we put in the good ol’ quotation marks? Here’s the results for “daleks on skis”.
Hey, they have my cat image from my first post, but not my Dalek image? WTF!?!
And here’s the results for “dalek on ski”:
Nothing.
So let this be a message! Here this Google! I will get my photoshopped Dalek image onto Google Images… Eventually.
Followed up by: This Site, Google Images, Daleks, and Skis Revisited
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Hi,
lol, that is really funny. Google image search is by no means perfect yet – but if you check out my tips I think you’ll rank pretty soon: http://internetmarketingabc.com/?p=206
Was that a real comment up there, or spam? I wonder…
Spam.
Cool pic, though! I think that the art of GIS-fu is a complicated one to master.
It’s spammish, but the principles of good commenting are there, so I’ll keep it.
Even though he obviously found my website through odd methods (see http://internetmarketingabc.com/?p=155), his site is mildly useful.
You know what – it appears on Google Images if you search for: quotation marks. Very funny!
It appears on the second page if you choose size: 800×600