Quick Search in the Windows Photo Gallery

re: Quick Search in the Windows Photo Gallery

Kdbertel — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:24:59 GMT

One thing that springs to mind is to be able to do things like "Family, but not Mom". Not that I'm entirely sure of the usefulness therein, but it's still nifty.

Is there spellchecking when adding captions/tags/etc? Mispelling words may cause problems when searching in the future.

Is there a technical reason for not searching the middles of words, or just because it would probably confuse a lot of people?

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re: Quick Search in the Windows Photo Gallery

Scott Dart [Microsoft] — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:58:22 GMT

One of the reasons for not searching the middle of words is to reduce the number of 'false positive' matches (photos that technically match the term you typed, but weren't what you were looking for). Performance is another one, but not the primary reason.

Although we don't spell-check tags or captions, you will notice that when you add a new tag, it will match your existing tags, so this is one way to reduce spelling errors (assuming that you typed it correctly to begin with).

Since Tags are user-defined, and often contain the names of people and places, spell check would probably get in the way more than it would help most people.

Thanks for the suggestion on searching. If your tags are set up in such a way that your Mom has her own Tag, you could probably still build the 'Family but not Mom' query using multi-selection in the Nav Tree (just use control-click to de-select Mom once you have selected Family).

Scott Dart [Microsoft]

re: Quick Search in the Windows Photo Gallery

PhotoTagging — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:52:24 GMT

I strongly believe that consistency across all of Vista is a must. The integrated search is a major new feature and this type of different behaviour will annoy/frustrate users and even cause a reduction of use or no use at all.

As to is it needed to aid searching? I already use this type of feature heavily. I only got a digital camera last year, and was immediately frustrated by available ways to manage photos.

A search/tagging system such as that in Vista will be a MAJOR seller for the product.

Some/many users used to doing this type of search in search engines (more during long term life of Vista). As Vista opens up the ability to manage all of your data (ie not just photos) teh need for the common experience/behaviour will grow.

My ranting and ravings on this are at http://phototagging.cloudedup.com