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Monday, June 30, 2008

I am becoming an image

I was looking in the referral logs of my blog. Most of my search referrals are currently image searches. I used to get all kinds of crazy searches that would find Sad Salvation because of written content. Now random people find me because of images. I am not sure why that is. Have Google text searches got better? Are people searching for fewer crazy things? Are images really what my blog is about?

I do know that I blog a lot of photos. I have been blogging a ton of photos for a few years now.

I am not sure if this is good for my blog or not. I am not sure how to attract people who have never read it before. I am not sure that people that do not know me would even like reading it. I would love to be a big time blogger, but I am not sure this blog is going that direction.

Labels: blog, flickrpost, google, image search, referral logs, sadsalvation

- Rich, 3:54 PM

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Google Image search sucks

Comic Con 2006: Wonder Woman and Super Girl
Originally uploaded by earthdog.

For a long time I have known that Google Image search sucks. My recent searches have done nothing to change my mind about this. I am writing a blog post about Wonder Woman. While thinking about Wonder Woman I wondered if any artist has ever drawn Wonder Woman in burka. It is an interesting question because Wonder Woman is so powerful but always dressed is so little clothing. I wonder if anyone ever made a different take on that.

I did not find wonder woman in burka. I found images of wonder woman and images of burkas, but none of both. By the fourth page of the search I had neither wonder woman or burkas. I know they search the text of the page and hope the image they are pointing to is what the searcher is looking for. It rarely works for me. Is there a better image search out there? Can there be a good image search without humans looking at the image?

Labels: burka, google, image search, search, Wonder Woman

- Rich, 9:51 PM

Friday, April 27, 2007

Image Search and blogging

March 31: Flower Tattoo
Originally uploaded by earthdog.

I have been looking the Sad Salvation referral logs. When I first started to blog I looked at them all the time. I even did posts about crazy ways people found my blog. There used to be a lot of crazy searches that pulled up Sad Salvation.

Now looking at my referral logs, 80% of the searches that find my blog are Image searches. Most of the images they find are old images, before I used flickr for my blog. It seems that some images are more popular than others. That is why I picked the flower tattoo for this post.

I know that many people do not link to my blog. Many of my readers have gone away since I turned off my RSS feed. It just wonder what it means that images are the most found thing about my blog. I have the feeling this is saying something about how people use the web is changing.

Labels: blog, google, image search, rss, sadsalvation, search

- Rich, 7:52 PM

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