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That is actually a hypothetical question. I have the misfortune to currently be conducting a search for a client project and I decided to by-pass the best match BS by searching by "File Age". "File Age" is supposed to mean newer first, right?  Because I see files that are at least a year old at the beginning of the search, in front of more recent stuff. Or is this, yet again, an "iStock re-definition" of something?

It was for "horse". And it did seem like it switched when I changed it. And I even redid the search twice, because the first time I did it it showed videos in the search, even though only photos was checked.

Last week I try to use its search engine and results are NONE for any common word.
I know Safari on Mac is buggy especially if you dont shut down comp for weeks and clear up browser cache, but imagine potential buyer who is on they site and cant find anything.
I dont buy on iStock because of my own principle, but I have client who need medicine nurses in front to make poster for sign in mid medical school and we didnt find suitable image on Dream (or its to uniform/common or to much sexy). So I try to find suitable image on iStock but search engine didnt show any result.
I dont know is it problem with buggy Safari or lack of iStock site to support all browsers or it is just one of million gliches on iStock.
Anyhow, we choose some common image from Dream while I talk 1111111% totally negative about iStock, how they are, how they treat contributors like in chinese sweet shops etc etc.
Even they search engine didnt work at all 
(This day when I try to search anything)

This post is maybe for thread "Buyers bailing the iStock" 

I didnt post anything bad long time ago about how they are natural greedy *insult removed* because I am to sick to think about them that they even exist.

Blind Wooyayy iStock Exlusives
feel free to press my ignore button.

Wow I just discovered that I use wrong naming for iStock
Usually in my anger and against posts for iStock I use phase "Cattle with little teeth" but accordingly real name for it is:
"small-time cattle" ("iStock sitnog zuba") (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagreb_crisis) on the bottom of the page under "Protest and resolution"

Buyers!!  dont even see these small options, IS, has made them so SMALL and insignificant that they are almost impossible to see,  simply because the whole mess is based on their best match.

If IS, made them stand out more and easier to use,  half of the troubles would go away.

As you seem to spend a great deal of time here constantly being rude about IS I'm amazed you're still giving them your valuable business.

Now, that's where you're wrong. If you zoom to 100% and look just under the trees beyond the lettuces, centre right, it's possible to make out at least six horses. They're not exactly the main subject, though.

What she said.

And I can't help it if some of my clients still have accounts there. You know, designers don't have control over everything our clients do.

And it's funny, I see an *exclusive* johnwoodcock complaining on the iStock forums, if you are the same person, I'm amazed you are still contributing!

Then that would be a redefining of "File Age", wouldn't it? LOL

What would Amazon do?

I went over to Amazon UK to see how much 4Gb CF cards cost, as I 'seem' to have lost two in the past week.   :'(

So I typed in SanDisk Compact Flash 4Gb and the 'above the fold' results were:
1. A SanDisk 8GB CF card (the upsell attempt)
2. A SanDisk 8GB SDHC card (in case I didn't have a clue what I was looking for?)
3. A SanDisk 4 GB card so cheap I'm assuming it's ancient, so slooooooow.
4. A book called "Quick snap guide to digital photography" with a mention of Sandisk 4GB cards on page 23, "SanDisk pioneered a 4GB CompactFlash card with a three-position switch on one edge that you can use to transform the card from a 4G/FAT32 ..." which I guess is news, as well as Geek, to me.
http://www.lizworld.com/CF4.jpg

I noticed the note at the top of the page which says, "select a department", but still, I thought my search term was pretty precise.
So I selected 'electronics and photo', same search for a SanDisk 4GB compact flash.
This time, at least they were all CF disks
1. 8GB card
2. Cheap, slow 4GB card
3. 4Gb, the kind I have at the moment
4. Cheap 4GB, claims to be the same speed as no 3, but less than half the price.
5. 32GB, costs £179.91. What I would get if I didn't keep losing them.
6 8GB slower and cheaper than no1
http://www.lizworld.com/SD4_2.jpg
So the first search got me one correct match out of 4 and the second, filtered, one, got me 3 out of 6.

BTW, I'm only noting the actual search results, not the merits of various CF cards.

I'm using IE and it didn't work for me....FINALLY some positive news after a few slow days!!!!!!

Yeah, you need to upgrade so you can fully appreciate IStock's f-ups!

Seems to be working again.