Actually, when you do a websearch, it makes sense to check the label
attached to the photo. If you don't pay any attention to photos that
do not bear the name of the species you are interested in - that at
least eliminates the problem of search engine misdirection.
Regards, Laurie.
On Tuesday, March 9, 2004, at 07:15 AM, John Leonard wrote:
I agree, Russell, that online image searches often turn up mislabelled
images. There are two aspects to this problem:
1. This is where easily confusable spp are mislabelled by the web-site.
2. This is where the search engine is looking for text either in the
title
of the jpg or nearby and so comes up with a duck when you are searching
for
an image of a flamingo, say. If you look at the original page you often
find
that the sp you wanted an image of is mentioned in the text, but there
is no
photo, and the photo supplied is the one nearest to the textual
reference.
Of course you could have a blend of the two problems where a web-site
has
pictures of Kentish and Malaysian Plovrs, say, and when you search for
"kentish Plover" the search engine comes up with the Malaysian, or vice
versa.
This isn't even to mention the problem of which ssp is depicted....
So beware of online images!
John L
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