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ga_woo for originally writing this great script, and for supplying me the code to update and host.
What is an Interests Collage?
It is a collage of pictures that we pull from the Yahoo image search based on what you have listed as interests on your journal profile page.
Why does it take so long to display the collage?
It depends on how many interests you have listed. If you have 150 interests, it will load 150 images.
Why does the code show up when I post it into my journal?
I have put together a help page for this. Click here.
Why do I get 'Limit Exceeded' error, it does not work?
Unfortunately, Yahoo limits how many requests we can send to it every 24 hours. If you receive this error message, please come back 24 hours from now.
What Journals are supported?
Livejournal, Deadjournal, Greatestjournal, & Insanejournal. Basically, anyone using the current Livejournal.org journaling software. If you know of other Livejournal based journals that you would like me to setup an Interests Collage for, please feel free to Email Me.
MySpace and Blurty users, please use the MySpace Collage page here.
Why are there ads on these pages?
Come on, these things use up quite a bit of bandwidth, this just helps offset the costs..
Why do so many NSFW images come up?
The images come from Yahoo's Image Search. By default, the SafeSearch is on. However, Yahoo goes to many sites and catalogs the images. If someone posts an image on their blog, or Yahoo visits a medical site, they may not deem the site as Adult, so they would not know to flag the image. I have thouroghly looked over the the SafeSearch features, and I must say, I made a test page that disabled the SafeSearch, and the results were much worse.
Where are these images coming from or why did an image of me/my art come up in my/someones collage?
The images come from Yahoo's Image Search. Yahoo has written programs that allow developers to access the information on Yahoo servers. These are called APIs. We have no control over what Yahoo gives us, all we do is search on a name, word, or phrase and Yahoo gives us the results. If you do not want your images to be accessible by anyone that may use Yahoo's Image Search, you will need to contact Yahoo. Here is a really good link with instructions on how to do this, and how to prevent sites like Yahoo, Google, etc from indexing your images and content. (Note: You do not have to restrict them from accessing your site all together, unless you want to, but you can tell the search engines what pages/directories/images not to index through the use of a robots.txt file in the root of your site.)
The Collage does not work!
1 - Known issue. Some firewall software is blocking the scripts from running on the page. This has been confirmed with ZoneAlarm. Other firewall programs may be causing this problem too.
2 - Known issue. Not all browsers are supported. Currently supported Browsers and versions: Internet Explorer 6+, FireFox 1.5.0.6+, Opera 9+. We are working on adding support for other browsers.
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