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

[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.