Did they just change it again?

my sales this week have been really good. I attributed the sales jump to fraud. I even opened a support ticket just in case. but then found the thread about a best match shift. though whatever has happened seems to be positively affecting my sales this time, in 2008 I was on the very bad end of a best match shift through which I lost 60-70% of my income overnight. I think any best match shift that really shakes things up is scary, even when it works out for you. it's a reminder that a little tweak can really upend the whole search.

Sigh..........................  Well it will probably change again and again and again until its a total mess, as usual. Certainly wont be in our favor, thats for sure.

Sigh..........................  Well it will probably change again and again and again until its a total mess, as usual. Certainly wont be in our favor, thats for sure.

It has to be in somebody's favor. A best match change can't cause everybody to go down unless IS sales overall go down.

They could also really push agency or other content not from MSG members, which would tend to hurt all of us, but possibly help their "sustainability"

My sales are a bit down, but I am not going to attribute that to the Best Match.  They were down last week too.

best match shift is geared towards older files so successful files over 2 years old are showing up in front. newer files are hurt by this new best match which is bad for me since most of my best sellers are less than 2 yrs old but contributors with older libraries wont see a downward shift i think. I think its a good thing for the shelf life of your files but short term wise this sux.

I voted no change.  Sales this week have been *slightly* up over the first couple of weeks of March, but those were unusually slow, so I think sales are just recovering a small bit of the ground lost then. 

Yup!  my sales are up as well, in fact they are slightly better then last year at this time. Im not complaining but these paranoid best match changes can only mean one thing: the agency guys at Getty are complaining and therefore getting preferance.

What we need inside the IS admin, is a negotiator, somebody who dares to stand up, who cant be bullied, somebody with clout and power.

To be honest, I've never noticed any of these best match shifts.

Quote from: VB inc on March 18, 2011, 10:33

best match shift is geared towards older files so successful files over 2 years old are showing up in front.

Not always. I tried a search where there were only 32 hits, and 5 of mine Ifilm scans from 2007) were the bottom 5. Then had a theory that scans must be at the back, but another search proved that not to be true.
Anyway, I had 1 DL yesterday, 1 so far today. Can't get much worse for me.

Well i guess i should have added in my case then. My earlier successful files from 2008 has been getting downloaded and i search the relevant keywords and they show right up at the front. Since the word "successful" is relative to each individual, I think any file with a 30-1 view to download ratio to be a pretty successful file.

Visibility of new uploads has been steadily declining for months now and i think the reason is that they are slowly showing older successful images more and more.

What we need inside the IS admin, is a negotiator, somebody who dares to stand up, who cant be bullied, somebody with clout and power.

Isn't that supposed to be JJRD? Doesn't he say he's fighting for the contributors all the time?

Wednesday and today are like weekends; yesterday was great - if you don't count the fraud subtraction

Given how good March usually is, it's particularly disappointing to have all this messing around with search, sort order of results, etc.