When I search a name of a person or celebrity, I get no results found. This is one of the (New VMT IDs) people. If I search the same name "Persons Name" then they are found.
How does a buyer know this little detail and when they search for a person, that a proper name must be in quotes, wouldn't they be a little put off to find No Matching Results?
It's not just names. It's any phrase which isn't in the CV, but which someone has already added 'for their own use', before the keyword bug came in. This has been the case at least since I started on iS in 2006. That 'feature' isn't directly related to New VMT IDs.
These 'for your own use' words will not be translated into the other iStock languages, which in the case of a person won't matter, and a place seldom matters, but for other keywords or keyword phrases might well matter.
However, if you try to add a keyword or keyword phrase which hasn't previously been added 'for your own use', they remain unsearchable. This has been going on for about a year now, and was confirmed as a bug by CR. The keyword stays blue in your list of keywords with a grey ! in a triangle. Add a nonsense word to one of your files to check it out.
And note that if the word is subsequently added to the CV, you will have to go into your file, delete the keyword, and add it again. It won't automatically show because they added it. And how you're meant to know it's been added is a mystery. They used to post a list of new words/phrases which had been added to the CV in the keyword forum, but not for years now.