Here's a photo/headline combo that Google News selected today. Seriously?
Seriously. How does that happen? Does my Google News front page just pick key words out of the headline and use its own search engine's "I'm feeling lucky" button to find the "right" picture?
You'd think that the words "women" and "breastfeed" in the headline would have quickly eliminated this photo from the running.
3 comments:
Funny you should mention this. Just yesterday I was mentioning to Amanda about an odd (or declarative) subject and picture matching. The headline was "Dems rebuild healthcare initiative after state of the union" (or something close to that, with a picture of the Return of the Jedi Death Star - the death star actively under construction. Could've been the "i'm feeling lucky button - but more likely some at google actually has a sense of humor and some editorial style...?
I've noticed a few of these lately and not just on news topics. On Goal.com (when I used to subscribe to their updates) 40% of their stories about footballers ran with the same pictured person. Very weird. I don't know who the guy was but he became very famous for standing in for almost half the athletes in world football.
Didn't Google (or someone like them) also have a problem with a mislabeled picture on an Obama story lately?
Google's contraversy was image searches of Apes/gorrillas resulting in pictures of Michelle Obama. Don't really know the details - but I'm sure you could google it!
Post a Comment