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by mattlondon
600 days ago
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Don't use the name - "Mr Floppy at the beach" is meaningless, but "dog at a beach" will probably yield a lot more. I've found google photos search to be pretty good, and if it can't find something usually the map-mode is enough to pin it down (e.g. go to the beach where you took the photo and it shows you the photos from there) |
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I did just check, and "dog at beach" generates sub 20% recall for me. I go to the beach weekly with my dog, take lots of photos because I'm a dork, and that first query skips many weeks.
Also, I did add my dog as a known / named pet under the explore tab, which is why I thought the name should work.
I can make it work by picking out the beach via geo, but I think the whole thing illustrates how much better this could be. I'd like to be able to get responses to queries like
* [pet name] at [beach X]
* [pet name] with sand on face
* dead seal, or even just dead animal (pics on beach)
* seaglass (recall is poor there too until I manually added to a photo album)
* dent in car
* [spice name] (I take pics of spices to know which stores offer what)
etc etc. The only way I manage the thousands of photos I have now is by carefully sorting into hundreds of albums, which google also doesn't support well.
Amongst the many many deficiencies of the app (which, tbf, does work extremely well as a read-through cache and seems to back things up very well), it likes to surface spotlights of dead people and pets. Which is not at all what I want proactively surfaced.