What's wrong with Google image search?

[Pete.Dakota]

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...

 

[Reaper 392]

i tried doing a search for worlds biggest spoiler:

1. worlds biggest joint
2 and 3. worlds biggest boobs
4. random aeroplane part
5 and 6.1 of the two pics i was after (2 pics of same car)

row 2, pic 2: men dressed in beanbags?

after that theres about 3 pictures in the entire search that are even relevant, and the second picture i was after wasnt even there

i reckon you should start a thread with that game

 

[Pete.Dakota]

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...

 

[silvercut]

basically thw way googl search seems to work is to pull all images on a page, problem is some pages have very diverse stuff on a single page hence the seemingly unrelated imgs

 

[Dave M]

Saturn?

Click on it? It's a page about Johnny Cash, the file name has his name in it even!

 

[Greebo]

I searched for "man water skiing tigers codpeice" and you don;t even want to know what google brought up.

And it didnt even find the image I wanted even though its been posted on ocuk lots.

 

[milkinc13]

interesting result for:
(random)

not work safe thou...