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Started by Read_My_Rights, June 13, 2008, 22:15

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Read_My_Rights

Best Match at IS has changed again. My best seller that was on page 1 for 1 keyword is on page 7 now. Are you ...... kidding me. NO DLs today.  What a bunch of ........ I think it severely favors new uploads. Just looking at my own portfolio, the order has turned quite dramatically. DL/Month seems to have been DE-emphasized. 

Is it me or everybody.

Thanks

PS. edited for language
ID withheld to protect the (not so) innocent;)

fotografer

That's strange because mine seems to be favouring the best dls/month images rather than the new ones. Of the top 20 in my best match search only 2 have sold less than 10 times so it's definately not favouring newest for me

stockman

It's just ebb & flow. Chill, man, it will be alright. It's favouring new files, right now. I've sold 4 today and 5 yesterday.

Read_My_Rights

Well the only one sold today was uploaded 6 days ago. Just wondering if this is designed to woo the new contributors. Just a thought - but best match definitely has changed. 
ID withheld to protect the (not so) innocent;)

rjmiz

I learned something yesterday from a friend.
It's of those short 3 letter abbreviations you use in text messaging.

BFH

hehhe I think it's appropriate for this thread. (hehehe)

Cranky MIZ
The voice of reason
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Read_My_Rights

BFH   *insult removed* from Hell
BFH   Behind Front Hash (marching band)
BFH   Benign Familial Hematuria
BFH   Benign Fibrous Histiocytoma
BFH   Big Freaking Hammer (last resort debugging, polite form)
BFH   Bitch from Hell
BFH   Boston Floating Hospital
BFH   Brandon Fern Hoppers (UK)
BFH   Bundesfinanzhof
BFH   Bus Fare Home
BFH   Bit Error Frequency Rate

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ID withheld to protect the (not so) innocent;)

fotoKmyst

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Quote from: Read_My_Rights on June 13, 2008, 23:34
BFH   *insult removed* from Hell
BFH   Behind Front Hash (marching band)
BFH   Benign Familial Hematuria
BFH   Benign Fibrous Histiocytoma
BFH   Big Freaking Hammer (last resort debugging, polite form)
BFH   Bitch from Hell
BFH   Boston Floating Hospital
BFH   Brandon Fern Hoppers (UK)
BFH   Bundesfinanzhof
BFH   Bus Fare Home
BFH   Bit Error Frequency Rate

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psst, you forgot the most obvious one...
BANISHED FROM HEAVEN

if it's not god who's the reviewer, then it has to be L.......
a.k.a  S ......
(too afraid to say it out loud! :o)

pancaketom

sorting my own port does seem very heavily weighted on the recent uploads. However my downloads have been really really slow despite keeping my queue full for over the last month. Hopefully I can get some boost, but maybe this change really just serves to further benefit the exclusives who can jump the queue.
We get it ... -snip- ... we are lazy, incompetent, greedy or uncaring. Rebecca Rockafellar for Istock HQ

PaulieWalnuts

I'm not seeing any change. I just looked at a couple of images that I normally track and they're in the same position they've been in for a while along with the other images that are normally there too.

I checked the best match on my potfolio and it's the same as it has been. The images that have the most downloads per month are in the front.

hatman12

There hasn't been any change to best match.  The most recent change happened a few weeks ago when the search was tweaked to give priority to XXL and XL files.

There was a database indexing problem which stopped newly approved files showing and also affected the best match (no files changed in best match order for some time, certainly a week and possibly two or three weeks).  This problem was resolved on Tuesday and may have resulted in certain files moving suddenly up or down the sort order.

Read_My_Rights

Thanks hatman. It certainly affected my bestsellers. I guess I just have to upload more XL then.
ID withheld to protect the (not so) innocent;)

rjmiz

Gee I thought I was the only one who didn't know...

maybe the guy who told me was pulling my leg but I he told me

BFH = Boo fu*kin' Hoo

which I thought would be a fitting reply to this thread.

Cranky MIZ
The voice of reason

PS I'm gonna have a few words with this guy if he led me down the wrong path.
Stock Photographer's Supplies
http://microstockpix.com/supplies/  I'm not really a "Know It All", but I play one in this forum I SUCK really really bad on iStock, my user name is vacuum

ludesal

My sales have been really good, and my newest uploads are not selling at all.