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You're overestimating the smarts of google: Image search does not classify image contents. It uses the site text for ranking of the images on that site. It find
by planb 5y ago
You're overestimating the smarts of google: Image search does not classify image contents. It uses the site text for ranking of the images on that site. It finds lots of "Black And White Couple Stock Photo" images - the image description in fact contains the string "white couple".
- grumbel 5y agoWhile that's certainly possible, this feels like a mistake AltaVista would make 20 years ago, it seems weirdly out of place for Google doing that in 2022. They used to be a bit more context aware and not just present you results due to some bit of text matching. If I try the search on flickr.com, "white people" returns black&white pictures of people, while "white couple" returns swans. Meanwhile shutterstock.com returns mostly correct results.
- iggldiggl 5y agoI'm fairly certain it actually is classifying image contents since at least a year or two ago (or maybe a little bit even longer – I can't remember when exactly I first noticed this), because I've noticed getting image search results that can't be explained otherwise (the keyword I've been searching for most certainly doesn't appear anywhere on the page containing the image in question). It can be turned off by doing a verbatim search (i.e. surrounding the search term with quotes), but otherwise it definitively happens, and it's occasionally been quite useful actually. Likewise, since at least around the same time (if not somewhat earlier), Google has also been running OCR on all images it indexes.