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The results are a bit better now in terms of being more related to my search term, but the results are not nearly as good as if you enter "elevated train" as a single search term. The first image I get now is an editorial image of a train parked in a train station in China with 0 views and 0 downloads. Not expected best match results at all.
The first image I get now is an editorial image of a train parked in a train station in China with 0 views and 0 downloads. Not expected best match results at all.
Yes, the best match is broken. Many searches give you really poor results and it's unbelievable that they haven't fixed it yet. It's been confirmed by an administrator in the iStock forum: "The issue is still being actively explored and yes, there is definitely something wrong. Once we get more information, we should be able to provide an update."
Okay, I am somewhat confused (probably born this way) on the way you are using the search engine? I want to Shutter and typed in fish- it brought back over 276K plus images. I than typed in rainbow to see if it would narrow my search to Rainbow Trout. I did not! Instead it brought up images of rainbows. Am I missing something?
Alamy's IMO inferior search engine [...] doesn't recognise keyword phrases.
Quote from: ShadySue on November 24, 2012, 14:17Alamy's IMO inferior search engine [...] doesn't recognise keyword phrases.Huh? But they let you put phrases in quotes. You mean they don't actually use them?
Quote from: Monkeyman on November 24, 2012, 12:20Yes, the best match is broken. Many searches give you really poor results and it's unbelievable that they haven't fixed it yet. It's been confirmed by an administrator in the iStock forum: "The issue is still being actively explored and yes, there is definitely something wrong. Once we get more information, we should be able to provide an update."There has been a huge change in the best match since that was written, in the last 2ish days. I'm not saying all the problems have been fixed, but most of my usual searches have changed considerably in that timeframe.
If things have been fixed in terms of faulty search results then that's great news and we should see some movement in sales from that hopefully.
A search for Sunderbans brings up many thousands of photos, only a few related to the Sunderbans - embarrassingly including five of mine.Maybe Sunderbans means something in one of the 'community languages'.
Quote from: stockastic on November 24, 2012, 14:23Quote from: ShadySue on November 24, 2012, 14:17Alamy's IMO inferior search engine [...] doesn't recognise keyword phrases.Huh? But they let you put phrases in quotes. You mean they don't actually use them?Nope. It's well known and it never has worked.
is it normal to put in 3 of your keywords into the search and not see your file come up?