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New Sites - General / Re: New SWISS Stock
« on: October 20, 2009, 12:23 »
^^^ There does seem to be some spurious results coming up on searches John. I just tried 'love' myself (so to speak!) and got a series of images of this castle;
http://www.cutcaster.com/viewmedia/view/100236966/Photo/An-monument-
It doesn't have 'love' in the keywords, which are accurate to the image, but nonetheless I got 7 images of the castle on the first page.

Pardon my reappearance but I got the same result. The reason is the compound keyword "loves one". The search algorithm triggers on hits of substrings, in this case "loves one". I notified John many months ago about this issue (which gives very weird search results) and he promised he would take care of it immediately. As with my previous email a year ago about the too limited size of the IFRAMES that gives me RSI when uploading, I got a nice reply and nothing got done at all.

Looking back at the image, the compound keyword "loves one" has gone between the first and this message on MSG so I guess John sneaked in and removed it. Wouldn't it be better to just address the issue fundamentally instead of patching images quickly when they get flagged in public?

Another image where this problem pops up is this one, searching for the keyword "sun": here. The reason is the compound keyword "sunlit office" that triggers the match on "sun". The shorter and the more general the keyword, the higher the chance you'll get false hits of course.

If I was a buyer, I would be fast out of Cutcaster, sorry to say so. Too much bad hits that aren't the fault of the contributor but of the defective search engine. Try "rat", and find this "corporate businessman" here. I learned the difference between str() and substr() functions in my second week programming class. Who is programming this site?

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Try to look for "Indian businessman" on CutCaster: the first and second results pages are full of Indian food dishes with no businessman at all in it. Not too surprisingly, most are from Moneybusinessimages that obviously struck a nice private deal with John for the front page that leaves us poor amateurs drooling for a sale every 2 months or so.

At the end of page 2 we see this image of a Caucasian fitnesser in the gym, hardly an Indian businessman. Follows a series of non-Indian businessmen on page 3, like this one and more of the same in a row on page 4.

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