DISQUS

Scobleizer: Yahoo makes a better search through Flickr integration

  • Chris · 2 years ago
    "Personally I’ve done a lot of testing of image search cause my Microsoft friends keep telling me “look at us, look at us”"

    Wasn't Macrosoft going to integrate the Mozilla Seadragon OpenGL tech into the image search?

    The one they renamed photosynthesis or plant-map or something?

    That never materialized did it?
  • Brent · 2 years ago
    I like the changes to the Yahoo search. I'll probably be using this instead of Google Image Search for now.
  • -gary · 2 years ago
    The difference between Flickr and google images is that Flickr is a concentrated pool of actual photos that someone took the time to upload and catalog in some fashion. Google is an index of whatever images it happens to run across on the web. You can't even compare the two.

    It is nice to know that the 3 people that still use Yahoo for search are going to get better results though.
  • Chris · 2 years ago
    "Google is an index of whatever images it happens to run across on the web. You can’t even compare the two."
    Copy Flickr, make it unsearchable/spiderable
    http://picasa.google.com Picasa Web Albums
    Copy MySpace, make IT unsearchable/spiderable
    http://www.orkut.com Orkut Social Networking
    For a site that raped the web and sold it by the pound, they sure are just a little greedy with their implementations/clones. Google has the goods, and they're not sharing. Do no evil.
  • shane · 2 years ago
    I use the search within Flickr itself regularly as it is the best source of Creative Commons by-sa pictures which are perfect for blogging. I think the best thing Flickr ever did was make this the default licence for all photos.

    No other source comes close in my opinion, especially if you search by "interesting" rather than "relevant". It's amazing what turns up.

    Picasaweb doesn't even come close. It's great for photo galleries (I use it to share photos of my son with my extended family) but as a resource it is quite limited.
  • tojosan · 2 years ago
    Robert,
    Thanks for the heads up and the links. Thomas always has something insightful to add.
  • Ruth · 2 years ago
    "What do you think? Are you going to change where you search for images because of this new announcement?"

    Actually, yes, yes I am. I have to say that today marks the first time I've ever used Yahoo Image Search, but I've pretty much always had a great experience finding relevant photos on Flickr. I'm sold.
  • Lee · 2 years ago
    I don't only going to change the place where i search for image. I will now only use Yahoo! simply cause of the ground, google grown up to an all controlling company. I dont' want to be spied by everything i do on the net. Google already knows to much about all its users.