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I'm pretty positive that they have a bunch of people typing these things up as they come in. I took roughly the same picture of the same book twice, and it ret
by jcromartie 17y ago
I'm pretty positive that they have a bunch of people typing these things up as they come in.
I took roughly the same picture of the same book twice, and it returned two distinct results:
"Godel Escher Bach An Eternal Golden Braid" vs. "Godel Escher Back Book"
Then I tried a WarCraft III CD case:
"Warcraft Dvd" vs. "Warcraft Video Game"
Some noodles:
"Neoguri Snack" vs. "Neoguri Spicy Seafood Udon Noodles"
JBL Creature Speakers:
"Jbl Speakers" vs. "Computer Speaker" vs. "Jbl Computer Speaker"
- dandelany 17y agoI just did an experiment: I took a picture of a box of "Nueva Cocina" brand red beans and rice, once with the logo obscured, and once with the logo visible. Neither image returned a brand name ("Red Beans and Rice" & "Red Beans and Rice Box"), even though most of my other attempts have. Most puzzling though - I took a third picture, a close up of the logo with only the letters "VA CO" visible in the image. The response: "Viva Cocina". What does this mean? If it was truly an algorithm, it should have been able to associate the logo with "Nueva Cocina" correctly, which it did not. But the fact that the response was remarkably close to correct leads me to think that not only is this crowdsourced, the same person must have gotten two of my images in a row, and just forgot the exact brand name. WTF? A bit creepy.