Recent acceptances presumably haven't chosen only 'city' and that hasn't been picked up on acceptance (where is Keywordzilla - one person has 20+ recent images of Singapore badly DAd so all of their images show up in a search for the MMA and for 'Central Scotland'; and older images have fallen foul of theKeywords team adding MMA long after the file was accepted just with 'Metropolitan'.

I did a search for Metropolitan Museum of Art and whether it's best match or New, the results are horrendous.
Turns out if someone keyworded Metropolitan, they get a choice of 'City' or 'Metropolitan City of Art (Upper East Side Manhattan)'. Recent acceptances presumably haven't chosen only 'city' and that hasn't been picked up on acceptance (where is Keywordzilla - one person has 20+ recent images of Singapore badly DAd so all of their images show up in a search for the MMA and for 'Central Scotland'; and older images have fallen foul of theKeywords team adding MMA long after the file was accepted just with 'Metropolitan'.

There was a while back when they were adding new words, mainly concerned with editorial, but in other areas too, and putting them at the top of the keywords forum, but they haven't done it for a while. Is it reasonable in any case for people to have to keep checking in case there's been a DA change on a keyword they may have uploaded five or more years ago and forgotten about? I am a BIG fan of the CV

In another search I looked for "Dune 45" in quotes, as it's not in the CV. It seems to turn up photos with 'sand dune' and '45-50 as an age. (easier seen on a best match search; age seems not as bad). Just like SS or Alamy. That is something I've never noticed on iStock before - surely putting quotes round Dune 45 should prevent Dune from being taken from 'sand dune' and 45 being taken from '45-50'?

I have a photo of an endangered species called Diademed Sifaka. Surprisingly to me, Diademed Sifaka is in the CV, but searching for Diademed Sifaka gives no results ( I have checked my keywords, that keyword is there [as are diademed and Sifaka] and AFAIK has been since I uploaded it. This confounded by the DA mapping Sifaka to Lemur, so if you search Sifaka you get a choice of Verreaux's Sifaka only, or continuing just on Sifaka takes you to all the lemurs (sifaka is a subset of lemur, but if a person knew enough to make a search on Sifaka, they don't want to see all lemurs, any more than someone who searched on 'apple' wants to see all fruits.

I know people will think 'who cares about these obscure searches?', but in the past when I've found issues like this on specific searches, the issue has applied to a much wider selection of keywords. A few days ago I read someone say some of his photos keyworded young and female didn't show up on a search for young female. Again, whether most searchers would search 'young worman' rather than young female is irrelevant, as it's symptomatic of things not working.

And yeah, I know I should contact Team Keywords directly but I can't.
I have a CR ticket about a different CV issue which I have asked them to forward to team Keywords, but it's still in my 'open tickets' since 31st Dec.

there are plenty were the search falls apart, try outer space or even stethoscope. Been like that a long time.
Stethoscope is also a good one to show the favourite contributors stuff both on istock and thinkstock how many on the first page are from the same person.

Quote from: Phil on January 10, 2013, 07:59

there are plenty were the search falls apart, try outer space or even stethoscope. Been like that a long time.
Stethoscope is also a good one to show the favourite contributors stuff both on istock and thinkstock how many on the first page are from the same person.

Oh, our searches must be totally different for best match stethoscope. My stethoscope best match search shows images from a lot of different people.
There must be a big geographical difference in what people looking for 'stethoscope' want. Allegedly.