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Show HN: Open GIF Search

60 points by blululu 6y ago

blululu 6y ago
Proof of concept on an open sourced Gif Search Engine.
data_ders 6y ago
I like the concept! We need something like this, especially now that GIPHY is a FB product. I searched for "salty" then "salt" "wave". The suggestions were "question_mark", "faucet", and "ocean sunset" respectively.
- jcims 6y ago
  I feel like I’m missing something. Almost everything comes back with question mark. But then i search for ‘se’ by accident and the suggestion is ‘dachshundt-on-record-player-turntable’.
  - 7ewis 6y ago
    "car" returns the same thing
cogref 6y ago
I'm not sure what the sources are, but the results are quite monotonous.
- deleted 6y ago
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- bransonf 6y ago
  There are only 61 GIFs in the entire dataset [0] What this project is most clearly missing is an attempt at web crawling for GIFs. This is how Giphy works, and frankly I think it would be trivial to scrape a few thousand GIFs in an afternoon. [0] https://github.com/bnlcas/OpenGif/blob/master/Data/Gif_Data/gif_data.json https://github.com/bnlcas/OpenGif/blob/master/Data/Gif_Data/...
compressedgas 6y ago
The data set is small. The search system is exclusively based on similarity search using word vectors. One result of this is that an image that should be returned for a search for 'parrot' is only returned for a search for 'bird'. A better search system would combine both word vectors and keyword matching so that if a description contains parrot it matches parrot but bird would also match parrot.
narrationbox 6y ago
Might want to considering outsourcing the actual search functionality to an external engine for better accuracy. Here are some good choices: https://github.com/topics/search-engine https://github.com/topics/search-engine
quickthrower2 6y ago
Your full full text search needs tuning
- quickthrower2 6y ago
  Sorry the "full full" was a genuine mistake not intended as sarcasm.
billme 6y ago
Google Image search also has a GIF only search: https://www.google.com/search?q=meme&tbm=isch&tbs=itp:animated https://www.google.com/search?q=meme&tbm=isch&tbs=itp:animat...
codingdave 6y ago
I did two searches related to hiking in the mountains, both of which returned a gif of a dog spinning on a turntable. So far, this is nowhere near the quality of a google image search, or even giphy.

60 points by blululu 6y ago

Proof of concept on an open sourced Gif Search Engine.

I like the concept! We need something like this, especially now that GIPHY is a FB product. I searched for "salty" then "salt" "wave". The suggestions were "question_mark", "faucet", and "ocean sunset" respectively.

jcims 6y ago
I feel like I’m missing something. Almost everything comes back with question mark. But then i search for ‘se’ by accident and the suggestion is ‘dachshundt-on-record-player-turntable’.
- 7ewis 6y ago
  "car" returns the same thing

cogref 6y ago

I'm not sure what the sources are, but the results are quite monotonous.

deleted 6y ago
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bransonf 6y ago
There are only 61 GIFs in the entire dataset [0] What this project is most clearly missing is an attempt at web crawling for GIFs. This is how Giphy works, and frankly I think it would be trivial to scrape a few thousand GIFs in an afternoon. [0] https://github.com/bnlcas/OpenGif/blob/master/Data/Gif_Data/gif_data.json https://github.com/bnlcas/OpenGif/blob/master/Data/Gif_Data/...

compressedgas 6y ago

The data set is small. The search system is exclusively based on similarity search using word vectors. One result of this is that an image that should be returned for a search for 'parrot' is only returned for a search for 'bird'. A better search system would combine both word vectors and keyword matching so that if a description contains parrot it matches parrot but bird would also match parrot.

narrationbox 6y ago

Might want to considering outsourcing the actual search functionality to an external engine for better accuracy. Here are some good choices: https://github.com/topics/search-engine https://github.com/topics/search-engine

quickthrower2 6y ago

Your full full text search needs tuning

quickthrower2 6y ago
Sorry the "full full" was a genuine mistake not intended as sarcasm.

billme 6y ago

Google Image search also has a GIF only search: https://www.google.com/search?q=meme&tbm=isch&tbs=itp:animated https://www.google.com/search?q=meme&tbm=isch&tbs=itp:animat...

codingdave 6y ago

I did two searches related to hiking in the mountains, both of which returned a gif of a dog spinning on a turntable. So far, this is nowhere near the quality of a google image search, or even giphy.