Those wacky flickr stats

[pecunium]

The nature of search engines is such that things you never would have expected can be used to find things.

Flickr has such a search engine, and this photo:



Was found in a really odd search string. Usually I can figure out how it comes to be that some strange thing leads to a picture (often it's from the .exif data), but this one....

corset or squeeze or cinch or gasp or suck or breath or pull or tight or lace or truss or strap or ouch

Plum escapes me.

I'm trying to work back to see how far into that string someone went before they found it. Mostly it's,safe for work (with some really interesting images), but there are those which are a tad risque; or past risque, so I'd not follow it from work, unless you set your filter to "safe"

Then again, looking under "recent" and "most intersting" gets a radically different set of images, which are safe for work; at least right now, and for the first dozen pages.

Comments

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

Now thanks to you lots of other flickr users will see their photos being found under that wacky search string. Then *they* will try it, leading to even more awareness of it.

Hmmm... the "or" modifier could be used to create endless surprises. For example "nuclear or hamsters". You never know if you'll get a pool of toxic waste or a cute animal. Better yet, "nuclear or pinup or hamsters" :-)

Slideshow:

http://flickr.com/search/show/?q=nuclear+or+pinup+or+hamsters

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

You might warn a fellow. The first image I saw was... Blur Hamster which is semi-safe for work, but not what I expected, at all.

As to using that to "find" a picture, at present it's more than 1.5 million, so I suspect it's long odds to find something specific.

Better to have a more refined search.

And it's not "thanks to me", but thanks to flickr, which told me about it.

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

Weird. That certainly wasn't the first image *I* got.

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't use the two disjoint word query to "find" anything. I'd use it to be surprised by a string of contrasting images.

[zhaneel69.livejournal.com]

WAs not my first one either but I have safe settings on.

[tlatoani.livejournal.com]

I can see the "ouch" part...

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Usually I can find some word, somewhere, which links to it (then I am amazed anyone slogs bag 30 pages to find it).

This one, not so much.

[tlatoani.livejournal.com]

Very odd. Tank bondage.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Panzerkampfwagen III, 50mm cannon, am I right?

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

No, it's a IV, with the 50mm.

[skeetermonkey.livejournal.com]

A Mk IV D or F. Probably a D.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the flat face, of the gun mount, and the angled armor on the turret are dead giveaways. It's amazing how small it is.

[skeetermonkey.livejournal.com]

And it has a huge hatch on the turret. The F2 came with the 75 and the additional armor over the F, and of course there's the H with its side skirt armor... right, well, good stuff.