On: Google's Social Strategy

[rorrr]

Actually, I'm a professional photographer, and Flickr absolutely blows.

Tell me how to view the highest rated photos for today, current week, current month.

Compare

http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/

with, for instance,

http://photo.net/gallery/photocritique/filter (set the filter to "last week")

and you will see how shitty Flickr is. And keep in mind that Flickr gets thousands times more traffic and number of photos uploaded.

[bad_user → rorrr]

You know, I consider it a bad attitude to (1) trash a good product without a valid argument and (2) completely ignore my comment.

Here's how to search on Flickr for "flower", from date 04/01 to date 04/12 (i.e. from the beginning of the month) AND sorted by interestingness:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=flower&m=tags&d=take...

Also consider that this does MORE than what photo.net's form you gave me does -- as Flickr doesn't have a rigid taxonomy, but a user-defined and very dynamic folksonomy, and they do need to do a full-text search for this.

     keep in mind that Flickr gets thousands times 
     more traffic and number of photos uploaded     

Precisely -- Flickr cannot do dumb sorting based on metrics collected from a dumb rating widget so easily, because (a) they are bigger and (b) they have more noise, which follows from (a).