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Image search has a recall problem. This is obvious if you search for a specific photo. I have a photo of my daughter as a toddler wearing a red vest or coat th
by jonathankoren 4y ago
Image search has a recall problem. This is obvious if you search for a specific photo.
I have a photo of my daughter as a toddler wearing a red vest or coat that reads, “Coca-Cola Security Forces” (She was a child soldier in the Cola Wars. Thank her for her service.) I can not search for that photo. I know the picture was taken at my house, but only vaguely when. If I search for her name and location, I’ll get thousands of photos. If I add some years, I get fewer, but not necessarily the one I’m looking for. Add some content descriptors like “red vest” or “red coat”, it’s totally random. Search for the words on the coat? Lol. That’s not indexed. If I breakdown and scroll through the list of thousands of photos, it’s not there.
Why isn’t it there? I have no idea. Maybe it’s not facially tagged? Maybe it just ranked low in some algo? No clue. No way even to figure it out. I have to resort scrolling through every photo for the date range to find it.
It sucks.