The Accuracy of Google Image Search (And Yahoo)

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Sunday, July 9, 2006

I did an image search for angsuman. The results are startling. Here are the top six images:
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Can you spot the commonality and the basis of Google’s algorithm?

Is Yahoo image search any better?
computer generated girlangsuman chakraborty Finally!
some news dudewordpress dashboard
At least Yahoo got one image right. But the basis of the algorithm is same. Can you guess it by now? Can you think of an alternative approach?
Filed under: Google, Headline News, Web
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