Let’s review: 1. Google started emphasizing images in content sometime around 2010. 2. Google created a “game” encouraging people to match their descriptions vs. “other people” (actually their machine) for silly badges. 3. Google decided after a year or so that its machine had learned enough, so they created an image search tab and pulled image searches into rankings. 4. Google turned over the majority of search engineering to AI. 5. Google now acts confused about why the image search sucks as bad as regular search. Maybe Google should Google “gaslighting.”
Let’s review: 1. Google started emphasizing images in content sometime around 2010. 2. Google created a “game” encouraging people to match their descriptions vs. “other people” (actually their machine) for silly badges. 3. Google decided after a year or so that its machine had learned enough, so they created an image search tab and pulled image searches into rankings. 4. Google turned over the majority of search engineering to AI. 5. Google now acts confused about why the image search sucks as bad as regular search. Maybe Google should Google “gaslighting.”
@effthealgorithm Google loves playing the balance between 1) we are the only player in the market able to do this so please don't sue us and 2) how's this how fault? And they get away with it.
@effthealgorithm I could swear that Google Image Search, many years ago, was a LOT better for finding relevant images. These days, for a lot of things (e.g., vintage fashion image curation for my blog), I find myself going to Pinterest instead.