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Search engines should allow [NAME], which would be the same as " * " but would match any capitalized word that the search engine believes is someone's first name.
This will enable you to more precisely search for only pictures that have a person in them (e.g. "[NAME] ____ing"), and more accurately
perform searches that you want in the context of a human being.
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Powerset are trying to build a grammar-aware search engine. They're nowhere near actually exposing their sentence structure to searches, but are instead using it to give better answer to natural language queries - but they're at least on the same planet. [jutta, Sep 13 2007]
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I have found that searching with N* will narrow the search. Or, am I missing something in your idea? |
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Some sites will allow a N% search also. |
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Klaatu, phundug doesn't mean "words starting with N" - the N is just a placeholder for a general name. (Because Name starts with an N, you see.) |
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If search engines were to offer up opinions about parts of speech - which would be hard, specialized, but spectacularly entertaining - I'd rather be able to search for, you know, "{{proper noun}} has a fetish for {{indefinite plural noun phrase}}" or something like that. |
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Separate out the content search from the search term parsing, maybe. A search engine could usefully classify pictures whether they contained some limited set of high level classifications - people, landscapes, animals, maybe machinery or technology. Then simply provide check boxes for those few classifications. |
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You might also want color matching in there, too, another thing possible with current technology. |
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Btw, if you enter all the gerunds I can think of off the top of my head, you get mostly or only people shots back anyway. Oh, wait, "polluting" - only one first page people picture for that. |
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