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My first search for "apple" gives you a bunch of greys and a red is only the 8th result. There's more grey, beige, a blue, black, yellow, orange, but only one green and 5 reds total.

Searching "heart" at least gives you a red first and majority reds.



Right. If you do a google image search for apple, it'll show mostly grays because it's returning the Apple logo.


Try "apples instead", all red and a single lime green.

It's amusing having a background in software development and this is the first thought I had. (like many here I am sure would) I don't know exactly "why" this works, but knowing that it likely would before trying. (like hitting refresh when your web app barfs)

Someone else suggested cause of the apple logo... and it seems they are likely right. :)

https://www.google.com/search?q=apple&tbm=isch

Shows the "holes" in this method.


Yep. Works pretty well for terms that return highly relevant images. Try "baby poop", for example.


my search for apple in google returns only results somehow related to apple the company, so it would seem this is google, but for colors.




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