Quote from: ShadySue on December 09, 2011, 23:13
I'm not sure this is really 'for' this thread, but it's fair enough.

I just did a search on 'zoo'. They're always saying zoo shots won't be accepted without a PR, yet there are well over 20,000 pics with zoo as keywords.

So I did a best match on 'zoo' photos only. And what is totally, totally hogging the first page. You'll have to look for yourselves to believe it, but almost all the top 50 are raster illustrations priced at Vetta, showing cartoons of animals but most NOT in a zoo. All ingested by a faux-exclusive 'group', with a link to the website from where they sell their own illos.

I wonder how many other searches are being affected by this? (Yes, I know raster illos have always been 'photos', but I've never before seen them so totally hog a photo search before).

How to hack off buyers and sellers in one go, iStock. Way to go. 

And what's funnier is that CSA_Images entire portfolio is Vetta.  Perhaps that's why it's so incredibly hard to get anything accepted as vetta these days.

Seems to me they've been trying to do too much, too fast, with no real solid direction as what they're trying to achieve.  The logo program is a perfect example.  Everything they've done lately seems to be pretty half-assed... iStock needs to slow down with all their so-called "improvements" and focus on what they're good at;  SELLING PHOTOS.

lol

Pages are loading but it's terribly slow at the moment..

Yes, it will.