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> This hasn't been my experience, so I tried an image search for [tom cruise] I believe what he means is that searching for first name + last name of someone w
by alister 6y ago
> This hasn't been my experience, so I tried an image search for [tom cruise]
I believe what he means is that searching for first name + last name of someone who isn’t a celebrity gets you celebrities who match either the first name or last name.
Searching for Tim Neeson gets you a wall of photos of Liam Neeson:
https://www.google.com/search?q=tim+neeson&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=tim+neeson&tbm=isch
Searching for Tim Cruise blankets you with pictures of Tom Cruise, but it at least says “Showing results for tom cruise“ so you know it did an autocorrect. When I tried other first names + Cruise, the effect is less pronounced than with the Neeson example. Maybe it’s because cruise is a more common name as well as an English word.