There ’s a new image storage divine service in townsfolk and , if you have n’t hear , it ’s dang forebode . limitless memory board ? automatonlike geotagging ? Search by exposure subject ? Yes , please . Google Photosis poised to take over my digital image library . It ’s also good for a laugh when it gets it all unseasonable .
See , the machine encyclopaedism algorithm Google uses to sort out what ’s in your photo is pretty estimable but in spades not perfect . Most searches bring up exactly what I ’m expect for : scene of nutrient , family and specific localization . But some of my lookup results have been baffling , like the image above . Silly Google , 35 mm analog film dockworker are n’t food .
The Photo app is still uploading and churning through the some 10,000 images I fed it this morning , but here are some of my best-loved misclassifications so far :
Looking for a cold one ? Sorry — salutary I can do is a Mickey Mouse Rice Crispy treat .
athirst for comic books ? Yeah , me neither — but maybe Google was just reading : broadly speaking translated “ Bento ” is Nipponese for “ Lunch Box . ”
All of these photo were taken between December 20th and New Years , but absolutely none of them have anything to do with Christmas .
Well , a bed is furniture . It ’s not quite a sofa , but I see where you were going .
No , Google . That ’s not ripe at all . You ca n’t just lump all video plot into one class .
I suppose I understand how Google could have misread for board but I have no melodic theme how my old film camera got here .
That ’s Disney World , Google . It ’s not … well , okay maybe I can see your dot , but I still like it .
Okay , this one might not seem that weird , but it totally is . See that face in the low veracious hand corner ? That ’s the Virgin Mary from this Spider - Man / Jesus Christ mash up :
That ’s fine ! That ’s what she ’s supposed to be … but if I in reality chatter on her image in Google Photo ’s people course - up , I find out that she ’s all these affair , too :
To be clean , these are all exceptions — not the principle . Google Photo ’s machine sorting got things right almost all of the clip . The cars class of my program library is indeed replete with car , and almost everything in the food for thought discussion section is something edible . If I search for fun , it gives me motion picture of my well-chosen , smiling family . Overall it does a outstanding chore — but Google ’s motorcar still have a little encyclopaedism to do .
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