How funny is the Google Algorithm?

I was looking for some pictures that would relate to the keyword “Air” recently and something funny came up.  One of my suggestion tools threw the word Aria (the Italian word for Air) and so I threw that into my query. Here’s where Google had me laughing.

The organic results came up, very standard vanilla results, no surprises, I quickly jumped to Google Images and that’s when bam, I’m hit with 13 image results of a Glam model (I’m not complaining) and another 7 results that were Japanese animation related for some series called Aria. I checked my Google Image settings (they were set to moderate), I switched them to strict and she got cut down to 7 results with the rest being the Japanese animation. So I went back to the Web Search results and she’s not there. Not on the top 10, not in the top 60.

What’s weird here is how Google can choose to filter results from its organic web results when in Google Trends and Google Insight she ranks miles ahead of the other SERP’s and yet in Google Images they give her her due.  She’s also got references in Google Groups at positions 7 and 8, and position 3 in Google blog search.

I think Google needs to be much more consistent in the way it gives its results throughout its indexes. At the moment it seems like either the Google family of products is either working in silos and aren’t communicating or they’re just milking certain interests in certain parts of its websites. Any which way, it sends a confusing message. It’s a wonder no one can’t figure out the Google Algorithm, I don’t think they have it straight either