It's not based off of LJ tags, it is based off of the interests listed in your profile. It matches those interests to identifying tags on Yahoo image search. So, for example, if you have Inuyasha as an interest, these images would come up. The script allows you to choose from the first ten images returned by clicking on them to cycle through one at a time.
The reason so many images that don't seem related to your interests come up is because the person posting them uses identifying tags that correspond to what is on your list even if the connection doesn't seem obvious to you or me. The reason so many of those are smutty pictures is because of the tendency of porn sites to use image tags that have nothing to do with their site content to draw search engines and up their hit count.
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Date: 2006-09-10 12:09 am (UTC)The reason so many images that don't seem related to your interests come up is because the person posting them uses identifying tags that correspond to what is on your list even if the connection doesn't seem obvious to you or me. The reason so many of those are smutty pictures is because of the tendency of porn sites to use image tags that have nothing to do with their site content to draw search engines and up their hit count.