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Count me in.  I'm in Australia, and would be very interested to see the results of such a test.

i'm in, tell me what and when !

I'm in italy

Will be interesting, I'm in from Holland.
I suggest "pregnant" and "harbor"

sounds like a fun idea. I can do the search from Canada.  It may be hard to coordinate so many time zones at a 'good' time.

Count me in, Berlin!

yep! Portugal will do it too 

Northeast central Colorado, USA

What will also be interesting is the results you get today, compared to results you may get tomorrow or next week, for exactly the same searches.

Whatever 'information' you derive from this exercise is only going to be a snapshot of how the system may work (or not) on the day that you do it. Istock may be continually refining the system in the same way that they do with the best match. And, just like the best match, even if you were aware of the factors, the weighting and the effect ... there's still very little if anything that you can do about it to improve your own sales.

If you do find out that Aussie buyers get different results to Spanish buyers how can you amend your workflow to take advantage of it?

cityscape search I get a mix but Australian shots up higher in best match than that I thought.

How come when you put the price slider down to minimum you still get Vetta photos ?   (edit  driver error) it jumped back to maximum without my intevention

There would (likely I should guess) be other factors apart from geo location which would potentially reasonably result in subtle differences even at the same moment.

Don't mess with the magic , I say

True, you can't control the other invisible variables, but there is one that can be tested and that is location. That's the theory, that location affects the best match results. It's isn't difinitive and if the best match changes according to the second of the minute, then nothing will ever be known,. We'll be like Heisenberg or who was that other guy? Schrödinger's theory represented the observational data by means of continuously evolving causal processes in space and time.

So lets just look at what we can see at that moment, we may not know how fast it's changing or where it will be in a few minutes, but we have results from assorted locations around the world, at a small window of time.

Hey, what if all of us get the same results? Then it's just as good of a proof that location doesn't change anything! 

So the experiment is better done, than saying, it's impossible, it's secret and lets go play outside in the rain and forget about testing anything?

Yeah, on the other one, Nina's (an Indian Restaurant Manager) "Tandoori Chicken", there's one I'd like to know how to make. She broght it in partially prepared, with the seasoning in a baggie, so we never knew how she made it.