Retrievr is a great idea, but it doesn't work very well. The great idea here is that you draw something and then it matches up photos from flickr that look like it. This photo is the result of me drawing a crude landscape with a built-in simple drawing program on the retrievr home page. About half of the retrieved results were landscapes and the rest were...I don't know what. Before this attempt, I tried to draw a picture of a brown cat with big green eyes and all it returned were pictures of not cats. There was one really artistic shot (read: black and white) of a cat and that was pretty much it.
Where does retrievr excel right now? Color recognition is quite good and I presume that is where they attempt to make the matches from. Either that or I need to learn how to draw better.
What do I suggest that would make retrievr better? They tell me that save all the sketches you make, but I can't seem to find the button that let's me save the sketches to my own blog/disk/whatever. I did get to rate some spectacularly bad sketches made by other users. This means all the sketches are being saved. I can only hope that the other raters who are lucky enough to see my sketches go lightly on me. I'm a pretty easygoing person, but I hope the folks who made retrievr have covered themselves on copyright issues, because I felt like I was signing away to them my hard(ly worth the time) work on those sketches!
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