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Agency Based Discussion => General - Top Sites => Topic started by: GeoPappas on December 22, 2006, 17:56

Title: Who Has the Best "Best Match" Search Engine?
Post by: GeoPappas on December 22, 2006, 17:56

iStockphoto has "Best Match"

Shutterstock has "Most Popular"

Dreamstime has "Relevancy"

Fotolia has "Pertinence"

BigStockphoto has "Search Match"

They all have different names, but they are all essentially algorithms that are trying to return the most relevant results when a buyer searches for images.

Which stock site do you believe returns the most relevant results when you search for images?

And why?

Title: Re: Who Has the Best "Best Match" Search Engine?
Post by: a.k.a.-tom on December 27, 2006, 17:24

man that's a tough one...   I think my initial gut reaction would be one you don't have listed in the poll.   Lucky Oliver.  However out of the batch in the poll,  I personally feel most comfortable with DT's returns.

Title: Re: Who Has the Best "Best Match" Search Engine?
Post by: CJPhoto on February 01, 2007, 10:02

I dont use the search fucntion as i am only a seller.

Fotolias would probably be better if everyone ranked their top 7 keywords as I understand it rates an image higher if the search hits a kyword in the top 7.  Not sure if this works in practice though but I do make sure my new photos have the keyworkds sorted correctly.