'Search image on google' add-on adventures: or, Sauron lives in a cola bottle

[huinare]

So I was trying to figure out where this bizarre but interesting rendition of Barad-Dûr came from, and I decided it was a good time to test the 'search image on google' add-on for Firefox. 

This tool is rather like the Tineye reverse image search thing, but at the bottom of the google results it also has thumbnails of "visually similar images."  The first one of these seemed to be premised upon the search tool's evident conviction that the Dark Tower resembles a soda bottle:

Behold, Coca-Cola Blāk, the short-lived coffee-flavored soft drink.  They discontinued it because everyone in Mordor was getting too jittery.

(Scroll to the bottom to see the two side by side...I think it also believes the bridge resembles a corkscrew..)

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

:-DDD And it's right - that Dark Tower does have just an air of the soda bottle about it.

The image of a thousand orcs, each swigging from their own bottle of Coca-Cola Blāk is going to stay with me :-D.

[huinare.livejournal.com]

See now that's why Coca-Cola Blāk didn't last...no Orc-endorsed ad campaign. I can see it now. A bunch of Orcs walk into a diner, chug their Coca-Cola Blāks, then begin to party loudly, trash the diner, and slay each other. Some guy would then walk into the diner, stare at the scene, grin and say, "I'll have what they're having!"

I'd buy that.