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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: wds on July 22, 2015, 10:25
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Since categories are redundant (relative to keywords) and usually inadequate and therefore problematic, how about "auto=categories"? Specifically, if a customer does a "category" search, behind the scenes, the site would use an algorithm based on keywords etc. to present that "category" of images to the user. This would eliminate the time wasted by contributors picking categories, and it would also allow the agency to refine, add, and improve the results (via algorithm improvements) of "category" searches by customers.
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Since categories are redundant (relative to keywords) and usually inadequate and therefore problematic, how about "auto=categories"? Specifically, if a customer does a "category" search, behind the scenes, the site would use an algorithm based on keywords etc. to present that "category" of images to the user. This would eliminate the time wasted by contributors picking categories, and it would also allow the agency to refine, add, and improve the results (via algorithm improvements) of "category" searches by customers.
iStock has moved towards presenting keyword-generated searches as results for the links they had on their homepage years ago. It certainly is the smarter approach given the 50+ million of images and the results you get when going by category as a searcher. However, it didn't even keep iStock from dropping the category system for whatever reasons.
Maybe we should pool together, each one donating a few dozen images and put out a reward "the first of the top four agencies dropping the category system will get an extra million images". ::)
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that would save a ton of time ... time that could go into making more and better images
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Bigstock auto generated categories, not sure why they changed it
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Bigstock auto generated categories, not sure why they changed it
Cos it was pants. I don't understand at all in this day and age with sophisticated searching algorithms we need categories at all.
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Bigstock auto generated categories, not sure why they changed it
Cos it was pants. I don't understand at all in this day and age with sophisticated searching algorithms we need categories at all.
Most of the time the category suggested on IS is wrong. Keywords have many different meanings. No categories at all would be better.