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If I search Google Photos for 'dog', the top seven hits are, in order: a fuzzy toy, a possum, another picture of the same possum, a cat, a pair of goats, a shee

If I search Google Photos for 'dog', the top seven hits are, in order: a fuzzy toy, a possum, another picture of the same possum, a cat, a pair of goats, a sheep, and I think it's a pheasant. The dog is #8. Of course, if I search Google Photos for 'me', the top hit is a frog, so maybe it just hates me. Update: not any more! Now the frog is #2. The top hit if I search for 'me' is the MV Isle of Lewis car ferry, photographed on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides.

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pimlottc 10y ago
Strange, I wonder why that is. I've got nothing but dogs on the full page. The first non-dog is a dog-collar on the 9th row. I don't get the ferry, either.
- bigbugbag 10y ago
  filter bubble probably: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...
Analog24 10y ago
I never used this feature until despite using Google photos extensively (I have ~60 GB of photos on there, granted that's 60 GB on my computer which isn't with the same compression/quality that Google uses). I have to say that I'm extremely impressed. it took multiple attempts to even find a mistake ("mountains", "city", "cat", "guitar", "food"). Although I was a little disappointed to find no results when I searched for "me". Being a frog is better than not existing at all.
- maverick_iceman 10y ago
  You can add your name to a photo of yours (or any name to any photo). Google will then automatically find all of your photos. When you touch search look at the face of people that shows up below.
TeMPOraL 10y ago
Interesting. I searched Google Photos for 'dog', and out of 5 results, one is my SO and I, and two are photos of my cats.
- mattnewton 10y ago
  do you use google photos and/or drive regularly? Just curious if it is a training data set problem for "me"
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    I do use Google Photos - I set up automatic backup of the photos from my mobile phone. It doesn't find anything for "me". I don't know what this classification is based on.
yial 10y ago
my mistake
- tgb 10y ago
  That's something very different: this is for searching your own photos, not all those on the web. It's fairly easy to find dog photos on the web, since the web contains lots of websites with text saying something like "dog photos" and then lots of dog photos. But to find it in user-taken photos with no annotations is a relatively recent success (and is clearly not entirely there).
spullara 10y ago
Wow. The search of my photos for dog is impressively bad. Everything from kids on all fours to monkeys with the rare photo of an actual dog mixed in lightly.

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pimlottc 10y ago

Strange, I wonder why that is. I've got nothing but dogs on the full page. The first non-dog is a dog-collar on the 9th row. I don't get the ferry, either.

bigbugbag 10y ago
filter bubble probably: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...

Analog24 10y ago

I never used this feature until despite using Google photos extensively (I have ~60 GB of photos on there, granted that's 60 GB on my computer which isn't with the same compression/quality that Google uses). I have to say that I'm extremely impressed. it took multiple attempts to even find a mistake ("mountains", "city", "cat", "guitar", "food"). Although I was a little disappointed to find no results when I searched for "me". Being a frog is better than not existing at all.

maverick_iceman 10y ago
You can add your name to a photo of yours (or any name to any photo). Google will then automatically find all of your photos. When you touch search look at the face of people that shows up below.

TeMPOraL 10y ago

Interesting. I searched Google Photos for 'dog', and out of 5 results, one is my SO and I, and two are photos of my cats.

mattnewton 10y ago
do you use google photos and/or drive regularly? Just curious if it is a training data set problem for "me"
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  I do use Google Photos - I set up automatic backup of the photos from my mobile phone. It doesn't find anything for "me". I don't know what this classification is based on.

yial 10y ago

my mistake

tgb 10y ago
That's something very different: this is for searching your own photos, not all those on the web. It's fairly easy to find dog photos on the web, since the web contains lots of websites with text saying something like "dog photos" and then lots of dog photos. But to find it in user-taken photos with no annotations is a relatively recent success (and is clearly not entirely there).

spullara 10y ago

Wow. The search of my photos for dog is impressively bad. Everything from kids on all fours to monkeys with the rare photo of an actual dog mixed in lightly.