There is Fotolia Brasil now. Great, I thought.

However I tried a few searches and things went too bad.  Pascoa (=Easter) returned many images, none relevant in the first pages.  As we can't see the keywords, we can't really know what's wrong.  One thing I noticed were many images from a contributor called PASQ and others by Pascarel.

Another example was rosas (=roses) it returned correctly the flowers.  Now if I typed rosas cetim (= roses satin) my images should appear, but all I got were images of green fields and other unrelated images.

Do you see these problems in other Fotolia translations?  I remember a problem I saw in Fotolia France when studying those requests posted at FT forum, and something like rouge a levre (=lipstick) returned images of power chords and plugs...

StockXpert also showed problems with the translations - even something univocal such as Christmas did not return good results, and I looked at my Christmas images and none had Natal as a keyword.  I posted a thread at their forum pointing the problem and offering help but they never replied.

Another point is: it would be good to add images dedicated to this market, that is, images with words in Portuguese, Brazilian money, etc.  But how to submit them, is it possible to log in to the site in the language we want and post them there?

Regards,
Adelaide

Automatic translations have its limitations, still. Submitting to local agencies, like paxxion.com in Italy, scanstockphoto in Norway and stockphotomedia in Sweden may have it's merits. Although they all probably have international ambitions, the fact that they actually speak the local language, and can use that knowledge in their local marketing, is probably their biggest advantage.

From what I have read at the forums on IS, people are not overly impressed with the translations there either, although their complicated system may (or may not) have the potential of becoming superior to the others (or just continue to be a pain in the neck of the contributors).