Better than Google Images?

November 6, 2001 10:49 PM

Help: can anybody point me to the thread where they discussed various image-search engines better than google's? I think the original post was about one that used some sort of fuzzy logic system instead of just keywords.
posted by signal to MetaFilter-Related at 10:49 PM (5 comments total)

I think the thread you are looking for was kicked off with a link to the wonderful "Picsearch"

I tried to search for it, but the search keeps timing out just at the moment. Hopefully someone else will have more luck.
posted by lucien at 3:15 AM on November 7, 2001

signal and lucien - I think you mean this thread. Btw, I don't think Picsearch is as good as Google. And Google isn't that good either. But it's exciting that they get better every week.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 3:39 AM on November 7, 2001

I've been receiving a lot of image search hits on my web site from alltheweb.com lately. You could try that.
posted by ljromanoff at 7:18 AM on November 7, 2001

Image searching is pretty tough. I am always surprised at how well Google's does.
posted by daveadams at 8:42 AM on November 7, 2001

Thanks Miguel. I think you are probably right, I think that Google is better. But I also like the way Picsearch is organised. I've found some good stuff there. (no, not that sort of "good stuff") It's a good time-waster.

Unfortunately, Picsearch doesn't seem to be "getting better each week"
posted by lucien at 2:45 AM on November 8, 2001