What's wrong with Google image search?

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This Google image search for 1920x1200 pictures yields 86 results.

7 are of a space shuttle.
Some are of the moon, which may be understandable.

However, Bruce Willis? Motorbikes? A Mac? Half-naked ladies? A lake? Final Fantasy XIII? The cast of House? World Of Warcraft?

Of course putting the term in speech marks does yield an accurate result: but it's just the one picture.

What is Google DOING?

This is a search for 'Johnny Cash Folsom Prison'

There are no pictures of Johnny Cash, at all. Which is understandable I guess given the specific image size, but....

Saturn?
A beach?
Spartacus?
The Mac logo half-hidden underneath Snow Leopard print?
FSX?
Half-naked ladies?
A lamp post?

This could almost become a game. Search for something quite normal, note what completely irrelevant results come back. Is Google a bit crazy when you specify an image size? Seems quite odd.

It's not even like these out-of-place photos have been incorrectly named...
 
Or just do it here :)

I guess the 1920x1200 size is a rare one for photography? Which explains the lack of relevant images. But when a Dr Who related search yields a turtle wearing a blue baseball hat...
 
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