infundibulum

I didn’t think I would ever find myself thinking that a site that got its started from scratch could come to the point of actually being better than Google, but as far as image searching goes, Flickr really seems to have gotten there–specifically since they added tags.

Case in point: I was messing around with some layout experiments for Blogamundo, and I wanted to know what “splotches” looked like. (Kind of hard to explain the idea…)

Anyway, check out the results for “splotch” on Google Images. Certainly splotchy. But there are some odd ones in there… including a rather unfortunate woman whose jugular seems to be exploding.

O.o

Then I started digging around in Flickr tags:

http://flickr.com/photos/tags/splotch/

http://flickr.com/photos/tags/splotchy/

Etc.

Pretty quickly, I came across a rather amazing (to me, at least) comment:

glueslabs says:

nice detail on concrete.

you should submit this to my new group:

www.flickr.com/groups/splotches/
Posted 8 months ago.

Okay, right. So there is actually like a group of people collecting splotches. 105* photos, of splotches.

Flickr, for the win.

* Um, 107. Since I first wrote this post.