Introducing GIF search on Twitter • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

#91

Post by LoSboccacc » Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 7:21 AM UTC

theTaggedTags wrote: post #76

Keats wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If only the gif search worked. 75% of the time when I do a giphy search on slack i get completely unrelated gifs.

It's all about the tags. You have to work in the other direction. Find something well-tagged, then giphy the fully qualified tag that produces the same gif every time. Granted, this is not a "search engine" type of use case, but the actual existence of some gifs, and the tags applied, force a degree of compromise.

That we're still at manual tagging says a lot about current state classificators despite all the press they generate

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by LoSboccacc » Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 7:25 AM UTC

_jomo wrote: post #28

minimaxir wrote: post #2

It's funny that Twitter is doing a GIF search because Twitter encodes GIFs as MP4s for bandwidth/performance reasons: http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-tell... I am assuming from this announcement that Giphy's Series C pitch deck was just one slide saying "we have a partnership with Twitter; give us money."

When will they add support for long GIFs with sound? /s There's a weird trend of taking full HD YouTube videos, converting them to soundless, bad quality GIFs and then upload them to twitter or imgur, where they're then encoded back to video. Quite often this goes without source to the original. I assume that people doing this just want to show the important content on the respective platform rather than sending a li…

I would love to see a service that caption sounds in gifs. Not just talk, everything, you gif a video of a car starting and the caption goes 'wrrrrrrooooo'

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

#93

Post by derFunk » Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 7:26 AM UTC

Keats wrote: post #72

VeilEm wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's analogous to building a 30+ person company around MS Office clip art circa 1995 or Print Shop banner designs circa 1985, only now the company is valued at $300m with $50m funding. For gif search. Because I need those memes and I need them fast?

If only the gif search worked. 75% of the time when I do a giphy search on slack i get completely unrelated gifs.

You nailed it. See my comment from yesterday, it's the same for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11113644

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

#94

Post by ALee » Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 2:25 PM UTC

I think Twitter is making the correct move here. It's always been the holy grail of Vine and others to try to create quick consumable content without making others create it.

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

#95

Post by Keats » Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 2:46 PM UTC

theTaggedTags wrote: post #76

Keats wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If only the gif search worked. 75% of the time when I do a giphy search on slack i get completely unrelated gifs.

It's all about the tags. You have to work in the other direction. Find something well-tagged, then giphy the fully qualified tag that produces the same gif every time. Granted, this is not a "search engine" type of use case, but the actual existence of some gifs, and the tags applied, force a degree of compromise.

I am not the one that got $50M in funding though, I just want to use their one line integration on slack. That's up to them to make it not work, not me.

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

#96

Post by dfischer » Fri, Feb 19, 2016, 3:57 AM UTC

xienze wrote: post #46

Tenhundfeld wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess your critique is that Giphy doesn't have a clear, announced monetization strategy? That sounds fair. I haven't done any research on the company, but that seemed vague in their recent funding announcement/valuation. However, I think it's fair to say that Giphy has created something people want to use. Anecdotally, their Slack integration is very popular in the channels I frequent. Maybe the lack of public mone…

What makes this indicative of a bubble is the combination of: a. Business centered around an utterly frivolous endeavor b. Seemingly far more employees than necessary to support (a) c. Many millions of dollars raised in the pursuit of (a) and (b) You're absolutely correct that people want to use it. But they sure as hell aren't gonna pay directly for it or put up with ads. This is not a business made to last. I know…

Valid points but I think you're underestimating pop culture and how things like gifs are being used by the masses.

Users always end up having value because of ads. People always pay for that.

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

#97

Post by Gmo » Sat, Feb 20, 2016, 5:20 PM UTC

Keats wrote: post #72

VeilEm wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's analogous to building a 30+ person company around MS Office clip art circa 1995 or Print Shop banner designs circa 1985, only now the company is valued at $300m with $50m funding. For gif search. Because I need those memes and I need them fast?

If only the gif search worked. 75% of the time when I do a giphy search on slack i get completely unrelated gifs.

Same here, useless 90% of the time.