Re: Google image search engine
- Subject: Re: Google image search engine
- From: T* S*
- Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 10:01:37 -0700
In my testing of the Google Beta Image Search engine, it appears to find
images embedded in static HTML, but not active server pages.
For example, a search for "salvia mohavensis" the search engine found my
photos on my web site, but not my same photos on CalFlora.
It does cover all subjects. For "Caruthers Canyon" it found my two of my
photos from Caruthers Canyon in its limited set. When I asked for all
results, it responded with 17 images, many of which were from Caruthers
Canyon, several not. The images that were not from Caruthers Canyon were
from areas on my web site that were close to images of Caruthers Canyon.
A search for "Mountain Meadows" hoping to see if the image search would find
Barbara Ertter's photo of Mountain Meadows, Utah on the Purpus web site
resulted in over a hundred images, some of Mountain Meadows, but many from
web pages that simply had "mountain" and "meadows" in the same page.
I think the image search is a good idea, but it's usefulness will be limited
by what's available in static HTML on the web, and upon the author's
descriptions of the images.
Tony & Moira Ryan wrote:
> "Richard F. Dufresne" wrote:
> >
> > I just tried out the beta version of the Google image search engine for
> > Salvia greggii, and it works fine.
> >
> > http://images.google.com/
>
> Richard,
>
> Thank you for this useful-sounding URL reference. I assume it is /all/
> kinds of images, not purely horticultural ones?
