I thought looking at the results of Google Image search for a few 'abstract' words would be interesting. So I wrote a screen scraping script in Ruby (this language is just great - the force is definitely deep with this one) that reads in search terms from a file and collects the searched images and their links from the first page of the image search results. The images were subsequently resized using ImageMagick. My list was:
Always, Bliss, Blossom, Blue, Bubble, Death, Delirium, Destiny, Dreams, Eternity, Fantastic, Happiness, Hilarious, Hope, If, Liberty, Life, Love, Nothingness, Rainbow, Smile, Sunflower, Sunshine, Time
And below are some of the results. The images are clickable - they lead you to the www links Google obtained them from. Note that Google returns 21 search results(images) on its first page in its default setting. In some cases I could'nt retrieve the images due to various technical snags that I was too lazy to spare any attention for. I am just putting up 5 or less per search word, in no particular order - ones that appeal to me or stand out in some way (and post censoring :) ) - you could ask me if I were a tyrant and I would say 42. So lets just get going:
Always:
Bliss:
Blossom:
Blue:
Bubble:
Death:
Delirium:
Destiny:
Dreams:
Eternity:
Fantastic:
Happiness:
Hilarious:
Hope:
If:
Liberty:
Life:
Love:
Nothingness:
Rainbow:
Smile:
Sunflower:
Sunshine:
Time:
And, finally, on a lighter note, can you believe Google turned up this while searching for 'bubble'?:
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Thousand words and more
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Abhishek Ghose
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