Q. Im really bored and i wanna find some awesome or random viewing points on google maps when you look at it from street view. Can anyone help me out?
A. Auckland
Toronto International Airport
Paris.
Geneva, Switzerland.
Montreal
Oslo, Norway.
Toronto International Airport
Paris.
Geneva, Switzerland.
Montreal
Oslo, Norway.
How does Google images determine if a picture is for adults?
Q. In google images, you can adjust the filter to display different levels offensive imagery (i.e. nudity, profanity, etc), but with the millions maybe billions of images online, how is it managed? Is there a google department in charge of surfing the internet to flag images? Or is it simply an algorithm of some sort?
If you're just going to guess, how about you just don't answer!
If you're just going to guess, how about you just don't answer!
A. Google does have a user powered program that gets people to 'tag' random images for fun in their spare time. The more times an image is tagged with related keywords, the more confident Google can be that the image is what people are saying it is, and eventually those tags will be used to find that picture in the search results.
This is not the only way Google does it though. They do have computer algorithms that analyze and sort images very efficiently (it's the only way possible, even a team of hundreds of users could never tag every image out there).
Google Images also has an option to search for images with faces. I believe this uses the same algorithm used in Google Street View to identify and blur faces. Some people comment on the fact that it's pretty good at picking up faces even when they are not real, in one case the logo for KFC was blurred.
The algorithm for safe filtering is not perfect though... there are still things that can get through, especially if you use unusual search terms. I am studying Computer Science at University and in my opinion, the safe search option is done using a combination of algorithms and human intervention to help remove offending content that was not caught by the system automatically (as I noted earlier, this can only be done for a limited number of popular search terms though, so not everything gets filtered).
The algorithm most likely uses one of two methods (or both):
A) Identify the image as safe or not by determining whether the webpage it is hosted on is 'safe'. This is most likely done by analyzing words on the page in a similar way to how Google indexes pages in the text search. This can't be the only way since I know of websites that have completely unrelated text that don't have their images show up in the 'safe' search.
B) Attempt to identify pornography by either measuring the ratio of skin-tone colours to non skin-tones (i.e. try to determine how much 'skin' is showing) or using object recognition to identify 'offending' areas of the human body such as breasts or genitalia.
I should also mention that there is a report feature users can utilize to report offending images. This also helps filter out much of 'unsafe' images from popular search terms.
This is not the only way Google does it though. They do have computer algorithms that analyze and sort images very efficiently (it's the only way possible, even a team of hundreds of users could never tag every image out there).
Google Images also has an option to search for images with faces. I believe this uses the same algorithm used in Google Street View to identify and blur faces. Some people comment on the fact that it's pretty good at picking up faces even when they are not real, in one case the logo for KFC was blurred.
The algorithm for safe filtering is not perfect though... there are still things that can get through, especially if you use unusual search terms. I am studying Computer Science at University and in my opinion, the safe search option is done using a combination of algorithms and human intervention to help remove offending content that was not caught by the system automatically (as I noted earlier, this can only be done for a limited number of popular search terms though, so not everything gets filtered).
The algorithm most likely uses one of two methods (or both):
A) Identify the image as safe or not by determining whether the webpage it is hosted on is 'safe'. This is most likely done by analyzing words on the page in a similar way to how Google indexes pages in the text search. This can't be the only way since I know of websites that have completely unrelated text that don't have their images show up in the 'safe' search.
B) Attempt to identify pornography by either measuring the ratio of skin-tone colours to non skin-tones (i.e. try to determine how much 'skin' is showing) or using object recognition to identify 'offending' areas of the human body such as breasts or genitalia.
I should also mention that there is a report feature users can utilize to report offending images. This also helps filter out much of 'unsafe' images from popular search terms.
Why did Google erase your search terms when you change top tabs now?
Q. I used to be able to search for say "occupy wall street" in search
and i can switch to news and get the news for the same search terms..
now when i click the news tab, they change to the main headline page and i must retype the search terms to get results.
AM I THE ONLY ONE GETTING ANNOYED AT THIS?
and i can switch to news and get the news for the same search terms..
now when i click the news tab, they change to the main headline page and i must retype the search terms to get results.
AM I THE ONLY ONE GETTING ANNOYED AT THIS?
A. I had noticed that. I guess they have changed how their site works.
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