Post #228,290
10/5/05 9:29:32 PM
10/5/05 9:29:43 PM
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Wanna see something interesting?
I was looking for a picture of the flooded buses in NOLA after Katrina. So I googled for [link|http://images.google.com/images?q=katrina+bus|http://images.google...ges?q=katrina+bus].
This was somewhat in the news recently. You'd think I could find it on Google.
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Edited by drewk
Oct. 5, 2005, 09:29:43 PM EDT
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Post #228,291
10/5/05 9:32:28 PM
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Try this...
[link|http://images.google.com/images?q=new+orleans+bus|http://images.google...q=new+orleans+bus]
-YendorMike
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Post #228,293
10/5/05 9:36:20 PM
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Nothing in the first 5 pages
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Post #228,296
10/5/05 9:38:17 PM
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Er, yeah there is
First column, third row down.
[link|http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/new-orleans-imagery.htm|Here].
-YendorMike
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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Post #228,350
10/6/05 7:33:39 AM
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Not on mine
[link|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/pub/Main/DrewKime/screnie-google.png|http://twiki.iwethey...crenie-google.png]
Are we seeing different results?
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Post #228,373
10/6/05 9:24:20 AM
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Apparently we are
[link|http://www.mikevitale.com/images/NewOrleansBus.png|http://www.mikevital...NewOrleansBus.png]
Third down, first column.
-YendorMike
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Post #228,376
10/6/05 9:32:41 AM
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WTF?
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Post #228,379
10/6/05 9:37:30 AM
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BTHO me.
-YendorMike
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Post #228,465
10/6/05 4:14:26 PM
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FWIW, first I saw it, then I didn't any more.
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Post #228,308
10/5/05 10:37:26 PM
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I can find your picture in 2 clicks.
Take your [link|http://images.google.com/images?q=katrina+bus|link]. Click [link|http://www.google.com/search?q=katrina%20bus&sa=N&tab=iw|Web] at the top of the page. Click on the [link|http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/buses.asp|first link].
HTH. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #228,567
10/7/05 1:25:48 AM
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Google's image index gets awfully stale.
There was a big scandal a while back where people asserted that Google was trying to help cover up the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, because you couldn't find the photos in their image search. Turned out that it was just a simple case of Google not having updated their image index in months, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's the culprit here as well -- dig through a Google image search sometime and note the sheer number of broken links and 404s you find, and it'll become pretty obvious that they only update it once in a blue moon. \r\n\r\n As others have pointed out, do the web search; they update that continuously. --\r\nYou cooin' with my bird?
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Post #228,575
10/7/05 2:59:07 AM
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Nope, that seems to be getting it backwards.
Über-James writes: ...just a simple case of Google not having updated their image index in months, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's the culprit here as well... But the problem is, first the most recent and relevant pictures were there, and later they were not. That's hardly a consequence of not having updated the index... It actually looks more like actively un-updating it. Weird, eh?
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Post #228,577
10/7/05 3:28:25 AM
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Never attribute to malice...
Google uses a "redundant array of inexpensive computers". If they don't care about keeping images up to date, then odds are that they aren't worrying about keeping them synchronized across the cluster either. Which would mean that 2 requests could easily come up with 2 different sets of pictures.
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #228,584
10/7/05 4:22:06 AM
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And given...
That even with the web search, hits to different Google datacenters (last I heard there were nine of them, I'm sure there are more now since that was a couple years back) can return different results ranked differently, well... looks like no evil is being done at the moment. --\r\nYou cooin' with my bird?
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Post #228,587
10/7/05 5:17:25 AM
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Ah, sorry, didn't mean to - should'a emphasised "looks like"
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