Author Topic: What a user or buyer is up against. (Read 1829 times)

Lowls · « **on:** December 11, 2023, 05:22 »

When we upload our assets and eventually get them approved and then they enter the catalogues. Users and buyers are at the mercy of "luck" whatever luck is. A.i./algorithms etc.

But the reality is quite brutal and this is a simple example. If you search for something A.i. isn't very good at - insects and choose one that is quite common and select video you would expect to get examples of that insect (on this ocassion).

Each page has 100 results and in this example you have 4 pages of video results for - Scorpion
Fly. How many pages would you be willing to search through to get the right footage?

Beacuse page 1 of 4 has .... 66% of the results which are not even insects. Birds, fish, food, and dragons. Many are insects which arent a scorpion fly

It is tragic - https://streamable.com/p5rhgo

And that was just the video results.

cobalt · « **Reply #1 on:** December 11, 2023, 07:22 »

I think this is where ai might come in useful. To really improve the search results and give customers a cleaner experience.

Big Toe · « **Reply #2 on:** December 11, 2023, 08:01 »

Quote from: Lowls on December 11, 2023, 05:22

Each page has 100 results and in this example you have 4 pages of video results for - Scorpion
Fly. How many pages would you be willing to search through to get the right footage?

Beacuse page 1 of 4 has .... 66% of the results which are not even insects. Birds, fish, food, and dragons. Many are insects which arent a scorpion fly

It is tragic - https://streamable.com/p5rhgo

And that was just the video results.

The search results are actually not that bad. Most of the top results actually feature scorpion flies.

You can filter out the unwanted results by putting your search terms in quotations marks: "scorpion fly". Then you get only 33 results but almost all the results show scorpion flies.

You can also search with the scientific name for the family Panorpidae or the most common genus Panorpa.

And if you search for scorpion fly in images and sort by relevance, the first page shows almost exclusively scorpion flies. If you switch to sort by new, then the first page looks quite different. So the algomrithm actually does a pretty good jobs to show the relevant images first, when sort by relevance.

Lowls · « **Reply #3 on:** December 11, 2023, 08:27 »

Quote from: Big Toe on December 11, 2023, 08:01

Quote from: Lowls on December 11, 2023, 05:22
Each page has 100 results and in this example you have 4 pages of video results for - Scorpion
Fly. How many pages would you be willing to search through to get the right footage?

Beacuse page 1 of 4 has .... 66% of the results which are not even insects. Birds, fish, food, and dragons. Many are insects which arent a scorpion fly

It is tragic - https://streamable.com/p5rhgo

And that was just the video results.

The search results are actually not that bad. Most of the top results actually feature scorpion flies.

You can filter out the unwanted results by putting your search terms in quotations marks: "scorpion fly". Then you get only 33 results but almost all the results show scorpion flies.

You can also search with the scientific name for the family Panorpidae or the most common genus Panorpa.

And if you search for scorpion fly in images and sort by relevance, the first page shows almost exclusively scorpion flies. If you switch to sort by new, then the first page looks quite different. So the algomrithm actually does a pretty good jobs to show the relevant images first, when sort by relevance.

Oh I know there are tools you can employ to retrieve what you want from the search results but how does a dancer end up there straight off the bat and bare in mind this is niche. It's 4 pages of quite an obscure insect. If you do butterflies by name its pages and still only insects. It shouldn't happen really. I guess it should be caught at review but pfffff they are all human right 🤣

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