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Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine

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Re: Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine

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Post by tomw1808 »

Absolutely amazing on the tech side!!!

Now, after reading the article, I gave your search engine a try. I was looking for that futurama its a trap meme (pretty much pops up on any image search here https://www.google.com/search?q=futurama+its+a+trap)

The problem is, the search engine you built is now very text-heavy, which seems to be usually very unconnected to the actual meme. So, searching for "its a trap" did not yield the results I was actually hoping for, but made total sense looking at how the search was implemented.

Are you planning to implement an actual tagging of the content of some sorts? Maybe a clustering of similar objects (like iphone clusters similar peoples faces in the gallery) and then tag those clusters with keywords somehow?

Re: Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine

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Post by 9dev »

spuz wrote: post #49

I'm curious how well the iPhone OCR actually works. How do you deal with errors? Is the error rate low enough that you can accept the output from the iPhone OCR as is or do you also run it through a cleaning process (e.g. spell check)?

For a single data point, it works exceptionally well for me. I routinely copy-paste from images or screenshots, and it rarely fails (mostly for handwriting or obscure fonts).

Re: Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine

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Post by yreg »

This is absolutely brilliant.

I believe I will actually use it a lot if you keep the site up.

Minor feedback for the blog post: It deserves a better meta description (for link previews). The first paragraph doesn't advertise how good the article is going to be.

Re: Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine

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Post by cnity »

petesergeant wrote: post #48
cnity wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This one? https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/wuu689/the...

Yes, that’s it, thankyou. Been searching a few days for it

You're welcome. FWIW I literally put your wording into google image search to find it:

> Database Iceberg meme that shows different levels of database insanity

But possibly my google search results are tailored differently from yours.

Re: Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #4

This title really undersells the absolute insanity of the described solution. This is a beautiful example of "if it's stupid, but it works, it's not stupid." The justification is very convincing. One thing I'm curious about: how did you build your corpus of meme images and videos?

yeah but lots of things that work are stupid because there are many other solutions that work better, the greatness of this crazy solution is it really seems like the best solution given price requirements.

Re: Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine

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Post by leokennis »

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #4

This title really undersells the absolute insanity of the described solution. This is a beautiful example of "if it's stupid, but it works, it's not stupid." The justification is very convincing. One thing I'm curious about: how did you build your corpus of meme images and videos?

It reminds me a little of https://www.beeper.com/. It allows you to read iMessages on Android and other platforms. To make this work, they will ship you some old iPhone to act as a server "bridge": https://twitter.com/ericmigi/status/1351934418961661959

If it works, it works. But it also speaks volumes about Apple's disregard/inexperience with exposing their stuff via the web - https://www.icloud.com/ being the prime example: half the stuff the phone apps can do are not available (cannot create a reminder with a due date...) and the things that are there are slow and buggy.

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