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Sami Serola (inactive)

Sami Serola (inactive) club

Posted: 23 Sep 2020

Taken: 23 Sep 2020

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1/32 • f/2.0 • 4.2 mm • ISO 800 •

Sony F5321

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chat •
cat •
kat •
gato •

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Topic search
Lesson learned on information seeking. If one wish to discover a good selection of images on certain topic, then there are number of things to consider.

Search for recent images on topic "cat" will give a lot of "noise":

[EN] www.ipernity.com/search/photo?opt=1&q=cat&w=0&t=0&lic=&s=2

Somewhat the same on any language chosen:

[NL&DE] www.ipernity.com/search/photo?opt=1&q=kat&w=0&t=0&lic=&s=2
[FR] www.ipernity.com/search/photo?opt=1&q=chat&w=0&t=0&lic=&s=2

However, there is an option to limit the search on keywords (if used):

[EN] www.ipernity.com/search/photo?opt=1&q=cat&w=0&t=0&lic=&s=2&m=1
[NL&DE] www.ipernity.com/search/photo?opt=1&q=kat&w=0&t=0&lic=&s=2&m=1
[FR] www.ipernity.com/search/photo?opt=1&q=chat&w=0&t=0&lic=&s=2&m=1

That is somewhat the same as to access certain keywords directly:

[EN] www.ipernity.com/explore/keyword/10560?s=2
[NL&DE] www.ipernity.com/explore/keyword/10560?s=2
[FR] www.ipernity.com/explore/keyword/10011?s=2

Search on keywords is however maybe better, because it should then cover plurals and compound words.

But what one should not overlook is the power of groups. People gathering together to collect images on certain topics can be the best way to find images on that topic. And it then is free from limitations of language searches:

▶️ Groups where "cat" appears on the title or description

So, a group can be seen as an alternative for keywords. People then describe the content according to group topic, free from language barriers!

raingirl, Fred Fouarge, tiabunna, Aschi "Freestone" and 10 other people have particularly liked this photo

Comments
 Bergfex
Bergfex club
Liebe Alice, es ist möglicherweise eine gute Ergänzung, die Du schreibst.
Das Problem ist allerdings, dass selbst das weltbeste Übersetzungsprogramm keine unvollständigen Sätze übersetzen kann. Auch die Punkte am Anfang und zwischendurch bringen DeepL um den Verstand.
Bitte schreibe doch zu unser aller Nutzen kurze, einfache Sätze. Dann wirst Du besser evrstanden, was auch in deinem Sinne sein dürfte.
3 years ago.
 Annemarie
Annemarie club
This is nice Sami
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3 years ago.
 tiabunna
tiabunna club
A fine image and interesting notes. I guess part of your search problem is that so many people do not add keywords with their images. Best wishes for the weekend.
3 years ago.
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied to tiabunna club
It much depend on the topic. Even if people do add keywords, they most likely use either English and/or French, and only one. So, a person who do wish find images of cats, has to take this into account and run the search on those languages.

So far I have usually relied on word search. And it does work on rather specific concepts like boomerang:

www.ipernity.com/search/photo/@/page:2:20?w=0&q=boomerang

Although, even that topic seem to give rather peculiar results. The shape seem to be the topic there. What makes the word search especially good is that it covers also comments. So, if the author has forgot use any good words in the title, caption and keywords, then maybe someone else has on the comments below.

But on very broad concepts, and especially when the word has homonyms, the search results are not good. Like the given example cat.
3 years ago.

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