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Someone tricked the Shutterstock algorithm?
lazy_ella:
--- Quote ---If you look at all the other images, you can always understand why they have a place in the top results, but not with his.
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Agree 100%.
I can't stop trying keywords...
Try "puppy". The guy OWNS the entire first row, and two pictures of the second. It's so funny!
Shutterstock has a picture of a puppy's butt as a third result, and it's a shot that my seven-year-old niece could have done better: https://www.shutterstock.com/de/image-photo/puppy-resting-grass-close-photo-walking-1720311904
changingsky:
Many years ago i tried to collaborate with one photographers search utility and stopped after several hours. Any search for any location in the world brought results list with photographers located in India on first positions followed by the photographers from the selected location.
Firn:
--- Quote from: lazy_ella on April 23, 2021, 05:51 ---
Try "puppy". The guy OWNS the entire first row, and two pictures of the second. It's so funny!
Shutterstock has a picture of a puppy's butt as a third result, and it's a shot that my seven-year-old niece could have done better: https://www.shutterstock.com/de/image-photo/puppy-resting-grass-close-photo-walking-1720311904
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Ouch. Seeing this hurts, especially since "puppy" is a competitive field for me. Guess my puppies don't stand a chance against puppy bum. ::) I don't object to any of the other puppy photos in these results deserving a better placement than my photos, but this? Really?
Roscoe:
--- Quote from: changingsky on April 23, 2021, 05:59 ---Many years ago i tried to collaborate with one photographers search utility and stopped after several hours. Any search for any location in the world brought results list with photographers located in India on first positions followed by the photographers from the selected location.
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The question is: why. Some contributors claim that the algorithms of agencies favor contributors from certain area's or countries, e.g. India or Eastern Europe. Not saying that's not true, but I never believed that agencies are programming their algorithm in a way that it promotes content from contributors in a certain area in the world. Because... why would they?
Maybe some contributors have better connections to dubious service companies that are involved in internet promotion and black hat SEO techniques. Or less shame to contact those companies. Have a network of Shutterstock subscription plan owners and make them all buy the same image so it rises up in the ranking. Pay them some money, and meanwhile get the earnings of being on the front page. Once you're on the front page, and the image is "useful enough" for buyers, commissions should start rolling in.
So far my theory. All the other ones (having someone on the "inside" for instance) all sound way too complicated or even impossible.
lazy_ella:
--- Quote from: Firn on April 23, 2021, 06:15 ---Ouch. Seeing this hurts, especially since "puppy" is a competitive field for me.
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Sorry, Firn. I didn't mean to be tactless. I'm no longer on SS, so I don't care even if they show this guy's entire portfolio first for every keyword in the world.
Your puppy picture is stunning, btw. If it's any consolation, at least if you hacked their system and put all your pictures at the top of the search, they wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb.
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