Pearl Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 I have noticed [LU] cropping up in measures during the last few days e.g uk plastic [LU]. It is not listed down the side. Does anyone know what it means? Pearl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Looking Up?? km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 Hmmm, nothing in my caption or tags would suggest that but it's a thought. I can't see a dropdown for selecting that viewpoint either. Thanks for the suggestion anyway. I've just spotted vans uk [LU] as well. Pearl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colblimp Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Little Usage?! Likes Unicorns? Leica Useless? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Lovely Underwear? Literally Underwater? Lacking Unction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptoprocta Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Liberal Use? Literary Use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 Last uploaded? Location unknown? No it's none of those either. I've found a few other examples but still can't work out what this could mean as there seems to be no particular features common to the search returns. Pearl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 License <Something> ?? We need Alamy to put us out of our misery! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearwater Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 License Unlimited? Yes, I know I've change the word order Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colblimp Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 I know what it is - Little Underpants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avpics Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 The search term prince phillip [LU] found the NU sale which barely reached north of a single greenback. 'Laughing uncontrollably' (to the bank)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 On 7/31/2018 at 19:45, Avpics said: The search term prince phillip [LU] found the NU sale which barely reached north of a single greenback. 'Laughing uncontrollably' (to the bank)? Knocks my theory of Licence Unused on the head - it did apply to my stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandyD Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 I had one of these show up today, and it was for a zoomed image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Posted August 3, 2018 Author Share Posted August 3, 2018 Reply from Contributor Services "We’ve passed this to our IT team to look into, as like you, we’re not sure. We think that it may be a customer typing it in, and therefore we won’t know what they are after, but we’ll let you know when we hear back from our IT team" Pearl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Collinson Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 My first thought was "looking up" as many of the images found are looking up, but then many others aren't. I then realised that if you type anything in square brackets it finds all keywords containing those letters, which is actually very useful. ie. van [LU] would find luton van or any other keywords containing lu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avpics Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 7 minutes ago, Mark Collinson said: I then realised that if you type anything in square brackets it finds all keywords containing those letters, which is actually very useful. ie. van [LU] would find luton van or any other keywords containing lu. 'colour', 'queen...philip' (various combinations) 'queen..liz'. Still seems a little random as a search option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 15 minutes ago, Mark Collinson said: My first thought was "looking up" as many of the images found are looking up, but then many others aren't. I then realised that if you type anything in square brackets it finds all keywords containing those letters, which is actually very useful. ie. van [LU] would find luton van or any other keywords containing lu. I tried your method - and found that the images I found also contained only the two letters lu in the keywords. However, also tried a search with lu* - and it seemed to find what you describe - but starting with lu.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Posted August 3, 2018 Author Share Posted August 3, 2018 Interestingly it doesn't work today. This mornings measures showed a search for Debenhams [LU] which returned two images of mine. However using that search term today returns nothing. Likewise for some other searches that I had yesterday. Pearl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandyD Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 13 hours ago, Pearl said: Reply from Contributor Services "We’ve passed this to our IT team to look into, as like you, we’re not sure. We think that it may be a customer typing it in, and therefore we won’t know what they are after, but we’ll let you know when we hear back from our IT team" Pearl yet when I search with it typed in, it brings nothing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Posted August 4, 2018 Author Share Posted August 4, 2018 5 hours ago, MandyD said: yet when I search with it typed in, it brings nothing up. Have you read my post above? Pearl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpics Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 I had someone searching for a picture of mine with LU and it sold a day later as a Novel Use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Posted August 7, 2018 Author Share Posted August 7, 2018 16 minutes ago, vpics said: I had someone searching for a picture of mine with LU and it sold a day later as a Novel Use. Interesting. I had some more [LU] searches today but nothing has sold yet. You would think Alamy would know if [LU] meant Novel Use. Pearl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alamy Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 Hi everyone Our search is not built to support the [LU] shortcut, which is why we're not completely sure what it means. Our guess is lower/uppercase but we have not seen enough examples to test our theory. We'll let you know if we resolve the mystery. Thanks Alamy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpics Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 29 minutes ago, Alamy said: Hi everyone Our search is not built to support the [LU] shortcut, which is why we're not completely sure what it means. Our guess is lower/uppercase but we have not seen enough examples to test our theory. We'll let you know if we resolve the mystery. Thanks Alamy Both images (AYBFWR and FP0T79) that were sold as Novel Use images were searched as LU. Only novel use image sales I've had in a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 I just did a search for pine tree [LU] I got one page of returns, and when I clicked on one of the pile of wood chips, there was a tag, lu. I’m wondering if this is someone’s way of identifying their images? It was an actual tag. Betty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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