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Lee Torrens:
picniche.com is another microstock mashup website which returns the quantity of images and their combined downloads for the keywords you search on. You can instantly see the demand and supply for images in a particular subject/niche. It's only connected to Fotolia at the moment, but other agencies are coming online shortly.

I wrote about this site a couple of days ago but didn't get much of a response, so I'm coming here where I'm sure to get educated opinions. What does everyone think about this facility?

sharpshot:
I like it.  This seems a bit like the alamy measures feature.  Will be useful when they add more sites but the FT search still seems to be malfunctioning, so I am not going to use it at the moment.

Bateleur:
Er ... I'm probably being very dense here, but I don't understand it.

In the 'About us' it states:

... our search system assesses the sales statistics (demand) for images found relating to that search, along with the competition (supply) for that phrase, and returns a rating indicating the likelihood of making a sale as a result of that keyword phrase on your image.

and they give a ratings table from <10 being bad to >100 being a niche.

Okay. So I do a couple of tests:

'business' and 'woman' gets a rating of 0.59 which is bl**dy awful.

'fungus' and 'smell' gets a rating of 24.69 which is half-way OK.

So does that mean that an image that illustrates 'fungus' and 'smell' has a greater likelihood of making a sale than one that illustrates 'business' and 'woman'?

Really?

vphoto:

--- Quote from: Bateleur on July 05, 2008, 04:32 ---
So does that mean that an image that illustrates 'fungus' and 'smell' has a greater likelihood of making a sale than one that illustrates 'business' and 'woman'?

Really?

--- End quote ---

it meas that in language processing we are still smarter than machines.

sharply_done:
I think it's currently in a 'proof of concept' state. Sure, it works, but you can't easily see the influence and interplay of primary and secondary keywords. What's there right now is an engine for something that could be a very powerful tool.

I'd like to see it evolve to work something like this: you give it a few primary keywords ("man, beach") and a bunch of secondary ones ("running, jumping, walking, volleyball, football") and it does an analysis on the possible combinations then throws up the results on some sort of easy-to-read chart. In this way you might find that "man, beach, volleyball" has a better market than "man, beach, running".

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