{"id":4788,"date":"2013-11-30T11:07:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2013-11-26T11:08:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T16:08:06","slug":"image-searches-in-different-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/11\/30\/image-searches-in-different-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Image searches in different languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tofugu (awesome blog by the way) there’s a recent post about how Google Images searches vary in Japanese versus English<\/a>.\u00a0 I have used the differences between English and other languages in web searches when I am tracking down some information or publications, but I had never played around with the image search.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the article at Tofugu<\/a> got me wondering about German versus English, so here goes.\u00a0 I grabbed the top results from each search; German pictures come first.\u00a0 First up, Katzen vs. cats, because this is what the internet is for:
\n\"katzen\"<\/p>\n

\"cats\"<\/p>\n

Pretty similar, though I still get a different impression from each photo set.\u00a0 It’s the same the next search, Gesicht vs. face:<\/p>\n

\"Gesicht\" \"face\"<\/p>\n

Although, food is where every culture is vastly different.\u00a0 And it is evident in Mittagessen vs. lunch:<\/p>\n

\"mittagessen\"<\/p>\n

\"lunch\"<\/p>\n

And the most different of all, Kuchen vs. cake.\u00a0 The German Kuchens are more attractive to me and more natural looking in my opinion.<\/p>\n

\"kuchen\" \"cake\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tofugu (awesome blog by the way) there’s a recent post about how Google Images searches vary in Japanese versus English.\u00a0 I have used the differences between English and other languages in web searches when I am tracking down some information or publications, but I had never played around with the image search. 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