Author Topic: Someone else's photos are on MY PAGE (Read 17723 times)

ShadySue · « **Reply #75 on:** September 14, 2013, 09:51 »

Quote from: wds on September 14, 2013, 09:26

Before any views or downloads may have locked in the keyword order, you can "Edit File Information" and put the keywords in any order you want by reentering them in the desired order.

In theory. In practice I've found that they don't always 'stick'.

ShadySue · « **Reply #76 on:** September 29, 2013, 05:58 »

Lobo announbced here that the similars feature was being disabled pro tem:
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=356544&messageid=6942114
Feedback is that it has helped alleviate some of the chronic slowness of site searches (why would that not have been obvious to them before they introduced it?), and no-one wants it back.

However, a contributor has just noticed a (hopefully) unintended consquence:
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=356544&messageid=6942444

whereby when you do a Google Search (images) on site:istockphoto.com "Username" you get underneath tiny images which represent your own files followed by much larger images which represent mostly other peoples'.

There must be some sort of misrepresentation involved here, between iS and Google:
You enter 'my' username, and a lot of other peoples' files appear.
Other people won't like showing up under 'my' username.

I really hope they don't reintroduce this stupid feature.

KB · « **Reply #77 on:** September 29, 2013, 10:09 »

Quote from: ShadySue on September 29, 2013, 05:58

whereby when you do a Google Search (images) on site:istockphoto.com "Username" you get underneath tiny images which represent your own files followed by much larger images which represent mostly other peoples'.

The results looked ok for me, until I changed the time span to "one week" as shown in the original forum post. Then only 3 thumbs come up, none of them mine.

ShadySue · « **Reply #78 on:** September 29, 2013, 14:13 »

Quote from: KB on September 29, 2013, 10:09

Quote from: ShadySue on September 29, 2013, 05:58
whereby when you do a Google Search (images) on site:istockphoto.com "Username" you get underneath tiny images which represent your own files followed by much larger images which represent mostly other peoples'.
The results looked ok for me, until I changed the time span to "one week" as shown in the original forum post. Then only 3 thumbs come up, none of them mine.

You're seeing something different from me.
When I look at your port, like my own, I see a lot of little thumbs at the top of the search results page, most of which are yours and many of which don't link to the actual file.
Underneath these are much bigger thums. I'd agree that the proportion of your thums showing there is higher than mine, though with a main genre of yours, I'd have to click on all of them to be sure they're yours and not a rival's. Outside that genre, many are not yours.

KB · « **Reply #79 on:** September 29, 2013, 17:26 »

Quote from: ShadySue on September 29, 2013, 14:13

Quote from: KB on September 29, 2013, 10:09
Quote from: ShadySue on September 29, 2013, 05:58
whereby when you do a Google Search (images) on site:istockphoto.com "Username" you get underneath tiny images which represent your own files followed by much larger images which represent mostly other peoples'.
The results looked ok for me, until I changed the time span to "one week" as shown in the original forum post. Then only 3 thumbs come up, none of them mine.
You're seeing something different from me.
When I look at your port, like my own, I see a lot of little thumbs at the top of the search results page, most of which are yours and many of which don't link to the actual file.
Underneath these are much bigger thums. I'd agree that the proportion of your thums showing there is higher than mine, though with a main genre of yours, I'd have to click on all of them to be sure they're yours and not a rival's. Outside that genre, many are not yours.

I may be seeing what you're seeing.

The little thumbs are ALL my files, but some are photos and some are videos. The photo thumbs all seem to link to my port, not to the file. The video thumbs just give an error.

When we get to the bigger thumbs, they are mostly mine, but there are a few others intermixed. But that's just standard google image search results. I see that all the time when I do searches completely unrelated to stock.

So I'm fine with the results as shown, but don't like the fact that the video file links are erroneous.

Mantis · « **Reply #80 on:** September 29, 2013, 17:41 »

Quote from: tickstock on August 15, 2013, 13:51

Quote from: lisafx on August 15, 2013, 13:49
Tickstock, I am not a bit surprised that you are so satisfied with the way Istock does everything. You are nothing if not consistent.

Glad to know all is right for you in your world
I didn't say it was alright, I think it could be done much better. I'm just saying Dreamstime's set up doesn't really look any better, they both have the problems of putting other peoples images first, having to scroll down to see your similars, and a description field which you have to scroll down to see. At least with Istock I can select the images I want to show, that's got to better than having Dreamstime do it for you right?

At least I don't have to wait five minutes on DT for an image to pull up.

ShadySue · « **Reply #81 on:** October 02, 2013, 17:39 »

The similars feature has just come back.

tickstock · « **Reply #82 on:** October 02, 2013, 17:43 »

ShadySue · « **Reply #83 on:** October 02, 2013, 18:01 »

I was noticing the appalling keywording on this file, and when I went back to it later, forgetting the original tab was still open, they had arrived:

ShadySue · « **Reply #84 on:** October 02, 2013, 18:04 »

^^^ Oh, it's off that file now. Must have been testing.
Sorry they're determined to bring it back.

tickstock · « **Reply #85 on:** October 02, 2013, 19:37 »

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