Flickr searches can be slow, so one man decided to speed things up. Doc Rogers talks to ‘Houser’ inventor of FlickrLeech … is it life in the fast lane?

Doc: I’m always surfing the web looking for new and interesting sites for this and my own blog (www.docrogers.co.uk). I stumbled across FlickrLeech last year and thought it was a pretty cool piece of programming. I emailed ‘Houser’ who created the site, and caught him half way through a Beta launch.

Hi Houser, good to speak to you … what’s FlickrLeech all about for those who haven’t seen it?

Houser: Initially it started out as a little tool I used to check the ‘Interestingness’ photos on Flickr for a particular day. Because that feature is a real-time moving target (it potentially changes every minute). read full post »

Isn’t it interesting how the results differ when you type the same search in Flickr as Google Images?  Google Images throws up the most obvious commercial images, whereas Flickr tends to throw up much more interesting creative work.

 Try “cat plush” in Google Images and you get this. Lots of cheap, cheesy toy cats. The sort they sell in Toys R Us.

Try “cat plush”  in Flickr and you get this. Really fresh, cool looking, quirky toy cats. The sort they sell in Habitat. 

 Amateur content really can be better than professional stuff

(Weird how Google Images doesn’t see into Flickr - I guess because it’s owned by Yahoo! If you know more than that,do let us know.)