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New best match is live. Seems to be the best search by far now within microstock. If only the slider will function right. Am looking forward how sales will turn out.
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=87124

OMG I just made a couple of searches and the efficiency of results is surprising. More to come as I look at it

Edit: I see lots of isolation in the first pages

What or who will prioritize the keywords?  I understand that most of the time, between 2 and 5 KW are enough to describe a photo (in my opinion!) but when there are more than 10, how the system will «chose» the main KWs?

Use of the same words in the title?
In the description?
The first 2 or 3 KW used by the submitter?
Manually done by the reviewer?

I wonder...

Claude

I a not too impressed.  "Granola bowl" didn't return any of my images in the first 15 of 28 pages (I gave up then).  My images have both word in title, description and keywords.  Many of the images are corn flakes and müsli, not granola.  My images appear in the first pages in DT and FT.

What's a difference between granola and muesli?

I'm gonna make some popcorn.
This could get interesting 

I think we should all be happy if results were more relevant in a tweaked search engine, so we know it pays to keyword (and to give a title and describe) correctly, that it doesn't matter if you are exclusive or not, if the image has been downloaded a lot or never, but relevance is the true best match.

But admins on IS say that title and description don't play important role in new best match....

granola: rolled oats, nuts and honey, roasted
müsli: oats, fruit and nuts, not roasted

I often have both together, but they are separate products.

Im with you on this one.   A "Good best match" is when that person finds HIS images in the top.  Meaning some other poor *insult removed* has a bad best match.   It´s in the eye of the beholder...

best match brings some images up, and pulls some images down. It's interesting how many contributors are euphoric because best match 2.0 is alive, but in the same time they don't know how it works, and what they should do to bring their images up

The only one who should be happy is the one who knows how best match works. Those who don't understand it don't have real reason to be euphoric.

IS did it to make it better for buyers, and that's good. They WILL benefit from this change. But contributors...I think it will be the same for them.... some of them will be happy, some of them won't be so happy. There must be a balance.

That's my opinion

...And, there is a question again, how they find relevant keyword? My image of crescent moon was bought on DT with keyword "fantasy" and my image of a goose is bought with keyword "gosling" (with one o)
 and my image of turkish shoes was bought with word "islam"

Great point, Whitechild, my Golden Gate image on DT was bought with keywords "blue buildings california"  I would never expect for someone to buy my photo with this combination of keywords.