If you go to iStock's Home page and click on Photos, or indeed click on the Photos link at the top of any page, you can opt to go directly to Editorial photos.

After a few seconds of thinking that a lot of mine are missing, I noticed that the default is a filter for only those uploaded in the past six months.

However, if I click to get rid of the 'past six months' filter in the left hand search column, the search goes blank and I get the blank page with 'tell us more'.

This is just ludicrous. Although some editorial is timely, a lot is not. And some very timely but dwindling in interest photos, like those with an Olympic theme, or 'hot news' will be up for a while yet.

Other editorial images, like tourist areas, commecial buildings, statues, postage stamps, and the castles they now think must be editorial (including the non-castles and never-were-castles-but-are-castellated) which won't change in their relevance are removed from searching in that way.

IMO for many editorial images, especially without people or things like shop windows or technology, which go out of fashion, the six month filter is ridiculous. My best selling editorial image was taken almost 2 years ago, but I bet it looks exactly the same today, however I'm not about to fly over to the US to check.

Agreed, a proportion of buyers won't search that way, but if they have it as an option to get into editorial from the photos page, it should surely be fully functional.

Anyone else get the same results? I get it in FF/Win logged in and IE/Win and Chrome/Win logged out, most recent versions of each.

Ah yes, but isn't there a training course buyers have to take so they can find what they're looking for on IS?