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> for a gif search engine And for a really bad one. It's more of a gif aggregator that can give you gifs of approximate themes. But I very rarely find a specif
by DiThi 9y ago
> for a gif search engine
And for a really bad one. It's more of a gif aggregator that can give you gifs of approximate themes. But I very rarely find a specific gif I want and I know it exists.
- YCode 9y agoNote they actually acquire the rights to the gifs they show.
- DiThi 9y agoThat may make the task more difficult, but still, even when I search gifs from very well know series like the Simpsons and I get a bunch of random Simpsons gifs (therefore I assume they got rights for short Simpsons clips) but none is remotely similar to the one I'm looking for. Then I go to google images and there it is among the first results. Edit: It may have improved a bit lately, but it would be much, much better if they did OCR of text in gifs, and use the context of where the gifs are found (esp. page title) for additional search terms.
- et-al 9y agoIf you want Simpsons GIFs, have you checked out Frinkiac?
- DiThi 9y agoYes, currently I know it and use it. It was just an example on top of my head. Other series don't have an equivalent. And of course there's a lot of known gifs that don't come straight from TV. RightGif mentioned in another comment seems to work better for that purpose.
- debacle 9y agoMany of the gifs they show are not owned by the uploader. They acquire the rights in a limited fashion to a small portion of the gifs they show. They'll of course make the "user generated content" argument, but clipping a video is not user generated content.
- Kiro 9y agoHow does that actually work? GIFs are often made by random anonymous people and then they just spread. Seems like a big task.
- com2kid 9y agoUse RightGif, much better IMHO. It can find really obscure GIFs with ease. Giphy's Slack integration is a pain point, just pasting in the first result (or just a slot machine type system) is not the best UI. They do better on other platforms, but RightGif tends to get it right the first time. That said, the valuation is nuts.