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« Reply #575 on: January 03, 2012, 12:52 »
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Yes! not great but much better. Best sellers are now push forward again and today I'm getting more sells of images older than 24 months.


CarlssonInc

« Reply #576 on: January 03, 2012, 13:07 »
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I wont even bother to look. How can anybody live withe these schitzophrenic changes?  beats me.

Stuck, uncertain that the grass is greener on the other side...still hoping things will improve or perhaps just a glutton for punishment.

« Reply #577 on: January 03, 2012, 13:09 »
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Yep, looks like non-exclusive images have been sprinkled back into the leading search results.

'Sprinkled' is the word. One of my regular searches, with 1350 results, shows just 13 independent images within the first 200. Other searches produce similar results.

It's not as bad as it was but it is still horrifically skewed against independent contributors. I see nothing there to motivate me to upload any new images.

SNP

  • Canadian Photographer
« Reply #578 on: January 03, 2012, 13:10 »
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Yes! not great but much better. Best sellers are now push forward again and today I'm getting more sells of images older than 24 months.

glad for you. I'm barely getting sales.....pretty darn crappy here.

ShadySue

  • There is a crack in everything
« Reply #579 on: January 03, 2012, 13:10 »
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I wont even bother to look. How can anybody live withe these schitzophrenic changes?  beats me.
You seem to have managed all right so far.

ShadySue

  • There is a crack in everything
« Reply #580 on: January 03, 2012, 13:14 »
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These spam-laden ingestions are still too prominent, but it is overall better.

« Reply #581 on: January 03, 2012, 13:22 »
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Yeah, its a sprinkling of good sellers among the exclusive files. They'll have to do better than that because they still have the problem that newbies won't be able to sell anything at all, however good they are. If an inde file isn't already a good seller it is nowhere to be seen.

« Reply #582 on: January 03, 2012, 13:22 »
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Yeah, its a sprinkling of good sellers among the exclusive files. They'll have to do better than that because they still have the problem that newbies won't be able to sell anything at all, however good they are. If an inde file isn't already a good seller it is nowhere to be seen.

Exactly.

wut

« Reply #583 on: January 03, 2012, 13:58 »
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Yep, looks like non-exclusive images have been sprinkled back into the leading search results.

'Sprinkled' is the word. One of my regular searches, with 1350 results, shows just 13 independent images within the first 200. Other searches produce similar results.

It's not as bad as it was but it is still horrifically skewed against independent contributors. I see nothing there to motivate me to upload any new images.

Well uploads don't work anyway ;)

ShadySue

  • There is a crack in everything
« Reply #584 on: January 03, 2012, 14:01 »
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Yep, looks like non-exclusive images have been sprinkled back into the leading search results.

'Sprinkled' is the word. One of my regular searches, with 1350 results, shows just 13 independent images within the first 200. Other searches produce similar results.

It's not as bad as it was but it is still horrifically skewed against independent contributors. I see nothing there to motivate me to upload any new images.

Well uploads don't work anyway ;)
Huh? I've uploaded two this afternoon, the other finished about 30secs ago.

wut

« Reply #585 on: January 03, 2012, 14:10 »
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Yep, looks like non-exclusive images have been sprinkled back into the leading search results.

'Sprinkled' is the word. One of my regular searches, with 1350 results, shows just 13 independent images within the first 200. Other searches produce similar results.

It's not as bad as it was but it is still horrifically skewed against independent contributors. I see nothing there to motivate me to upload any new images.

Well uploads don't work anyway ;)
Huh? I've uploaded two this afternoon, the other finished about 30secs ago.

Than it must be broke for indies only. Working for IS feels to me like dragging a (prison) ball and chain uphill :s

« Reply #586 on: January 03, 2012, 14:13 »
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Yep, looks like non-exclusive images have been sprinkled back into the leading search results.

'Sprinkled' is the word. One of my regular searches, with 1350 results, shows just 13 independent images within the first 200. Other searches produce similar results.

It's not as bad as it was but it is still horrifically skewed against independent contributors. I see nothing there to motivate me to upload any new images.

I just uploaded one using the site uploader, not deep meta.

Well uploads don't work anyway ;)
Huh? I've uploaded two this afternoon, the other finished about 30secs ago.

Than it must be broke for indies only. Working for IS feels to me like dragging a (prison) ball and chain uphill :s

wut

« Reply #587 on: January 03, 2012, 14:40 »
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Yep, looks like non-exclusive images have been sprinkled back into the leading search results.

'Sprinkled' is the word. One of my regular searches, with 1350 results, shows just 13 independent images within the first 200. Other searches produce similar results.

It's not as bad as it was but it is still horrifically skewed against independent contributors. I see nothing there to motivate me to upload any new images.

I just uploaded one using the site uploader, not deep meta.

Well uploads don't work anyway ;)
Huh? I've uploaded two this afternoon, the other finished about 30secs ago.

Than it must be broke for indies only. Working for IS feels to me like dragging a (prison) ball and chain uphill :s

I tried it on the site as well, I don't even use DM

« Reply #588 on: January 03, 2012, 14:43 »
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Than it must be broke for indies only. Working for IS feels to me like dragging a (prison) ball and chain uphill :s

So why are you bothering?

« Reply #589 on: January 03, 2012, 14:51 »
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Than it must be broke for indies only. Working for IS feels to me like dragging a (prison) ball and chain uphill :s

So why are you bothering?

That was shadysue who said that, the quotes got mixed up and I'm not sure where my message went. I was trying to say that I had uploaded one without problems a little while back (site uploader).

lagereek

« Reply #590 on: January 03, 2012, 14:57 »
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OH! boy!  are we going to have another 24 pages now of how we are allowed to get a few crumbs thrown at us, the plebs?  and yes, why bother.

ShadySue

  • There is a crack in everything
« Reply #591 on: January 03, 2012, 15:08 »
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Than it must be broke for indies only. Working for IS feels to me like dragging a (prison) ball and chain uphill :s

So why are you bothering?

That was shadysue who said that, the quotes got mixed up and I'm not sure where my message went. I was trying to say that I had uploaded one without problems a little while back (site uploader).

I didn't say that. Wut did, IIRC. I also said I'd uploaded without problems (site, not DM).

« Reply #592 on: January 03, 2012, 15:11 »
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Sorry, Sue.

and yes, why bother.

Because iS+PP is still, as of November (and probably December) my No.2 wealth generator.

« Reply #593 on: January 03, 2012, 15:54 »
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Did anyone figure if you post something on IS forum and after few words or sentences type word

Lobo

every other words behind Lobo is not visible including Lobo

Is it new kind of lobotomy or just me?

wut

« Reply #594 on: January 03, 2012, 15:55 »
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Than it must be broke for indies only. Working for IS feels to me like dragging a (prison) ball and chain uphill :s

So why are you bothering?

That was shadysue who said that, the quotes got mixed up and I'm not sure where my message went. I was trying to say that I had uploaded one without problems a little while back (site uploader).

Just wanted to upload one I had forgotten back in Nov. So that the series would be complete. Otherwise I'm not planing on uploading any new content until best match gets back to spitting out "normal" results

lisafx

« Reply #595 on: January 03, 2012, 16:46 »
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Sales still very anemic here.  I had hoped for a bit better since everyone should be back to work today, but clearly we are off to a slow start to the new year. 

« Reply #596 on: January 03, 2012, 17:03 »
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Definitely slow. But January has never been a great month for me.

Micro1

« Reply #597 on: January 03, 2012, 18:04 »
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Dear iStockphoto,

Can you please change your search engine to favor DLs/Month. This way buyers get to see a fair representation of good images. Frankly, not all of your "exclusive" images are very good at all. Your future actually depends on keeping buyers happy, not looking after "exclusives" interests.

KB

« Reply #598 on: January 03, 2012, 18:10 »
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Dear iStockphoto,

Can you please change your search engine to favor DLs/Month. This way buyers get to see a fair representation of good images.

That would be a fair representation of popular, older files. What would be the point of UL'ing new files under that kind of best match? Similar to independents UL'ing under the current one -- why bother?

They need to go back to the best match the way it was when best match 2.0 was introduced. That best match gave a fair mixture of exclusive and independent files, new and old, and weighted by keywords. That's the only best match that makes sense to me, and it really was a BEST match due to the keyword weighting.

lisafx

« Reply #599 on: January 03, 2012, 18:19 »
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They need to go back to the best match the way it was when best match 2.0 was introduced. That best match gave a fair mixture of exclusive and independent files, new and old, and weighted by keywords. That's the only best match that makes sense to me, and it really was a BEST match due to the keyword weighting.

Absolutely right.  They spent ages developing best match 2.0 and it actually worked, was fair to every contributor, and put the best variety of content in front of buyers.  It was sheer idiocy to scrap it in favor of this mess.


 

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