For this project I am going to require a large amount of data, images and sources to obtain specific results to create the end result for the user. This requires me to perform a large amount of research into search engine performance and relevancy to this project. Which search engines and websites will provide the best results for the keywords used by the user?
Without the right information and data the project will be worthless and meaningless to the created artwork.
There are many debates to which search engine provides the best result. After visiting the http://www.searchenginewatch.com it was clear which search engines were performing the best at this current time. There awards stated that Yahoo were currently the best for image search. This is something I will now begin to explain and investigate.
Using the following keywords I will compare the results from each search engine: ”Duchamp conceptual art”
| Search engine | Results and findings | |
| Yahoo | 47 – Images very relevant | |
| 12,600 – Images very relevant on the first few pages | ||
| Msn | 24 – Images very relevant | |
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40 – Images very relevant | |
| Ask | 13 – Images very relevant but not enough | |
| Altavista | 47 – Seemed to be returning the same as yahoo results |
So in conclusion to this first search it was clear that google provided the largest amount of results but whether or not all of the images were relevant this was another question. Yahoo’s images were very specific and relevant to the keyword search. This was infact true for all of the search engines tested. As my prototype will be using more keywords and more peculiar sentence structures I will now investigate the same method using “Duchamp Baudrillard Sound Art“ Using the following keywords I will compare the results from each search engine: ”Duchamp conceptual art”
| Search engine | Results and findings | |
| Yahoo | 0 – Nothing found | |
| 925 – Some image relevancy | ||
| Msn | 0 – Nothing found | |
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0 – Nothing found | |
| Ask | 0 – Nothing found | |
| Altavista | 0 – Nothing found |
As this project relies on images, Google is defiantly providing more content, the results which are found on its first 2 pages tend to be relevant to the keyword searches performed. As the project will only pull in a maximum of 30 images, Google’s image search will be more than adequate. I will adapt this into the project as soon as development takes place.
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