Doc Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 Hi all, I have noticed several searches in Measures recently in this format What exactly does it mean/signify? thanks Kumar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 I have no idea, but what is really weird is that when looking at AOA and seeing one of these types of searches, even when it shows hundreds of images have come back in that search, if I click it, it says can't find anything ! I have tried it with quite of few of them. Maybe it's unique to a particular client? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 The percentage sign must be some sort of AoA interpretation, using it in an Alamy search leaves no results at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 “When you see “%20,” it represents a space in an encoded URL” from the internet 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearwater Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 6 hours ago, Sally said: “When you see “%20,” it represents a space in an encoded URL” from the internet That's it. Possibly it is an encoding error of search terms from one source to another with different encoding. Anyway, the searches were made with the space, not the %20, so I would not worry about it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Hodgson Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 it's actually a '+' symbol in html. I've noticed an increase in these too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearwater Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 1 hour ago, James Hodgson said: it's actually a '+' symbol in html. I've noticed an increase in these too. I think the '+' symbol is %2B https://krypted.com/utilities/html-encoding-reference/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted February 4, 2020 Author Share Posted February 4, 2020 Thanks all for your replies! Not sure I completely understand it! Kumar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 I"m getting a bunch of them and thinking if it is just one person doing it they are very busy! It's kind of annoying to read. Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 1 hour ago, NYCat said: I"m getting a bunch of them and thinking if it is just one person doing it they are very busy! It's kind of annoying to read. Paulette I guess since i come from a non english speaking language, and have a letter that many environment feels is "illegal" (their word not mine) i have gotten used to see stuff translated into error codes %E7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 On 01/02/2020 at 03:31, Sally said: “When you see “%20,” it represents a space in an encoded URL” from the internet I notice many of the search with such occurrence have proper names in them (places, paths) i wonder if many are generated from search from Non English Alamy mirror site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearwater Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 (edited) As I stated, the client search was done with a space, not with the %20 symbol or any other code. That's is for sure because your images appear it that search, and I'm sure you don't use %20 in your tags Try to search for "red%20house" for example...no hits. The "searchterm%20searchterm" probably have been saved incorrectly in the searches database because an incorrect "translation" between different encodings (let's says something like computer languages). I have got those searchtems too, and I don't worry about it. Just change %20 for a space in my records. That's the most hassle. Hope it helps! Regards Edited February 4, 2020 by shearwater 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 3 hours ago, shearwater said: As I stated, the client search was done with a space, not with the %20 symbol or any other code. That's is for sure because your images appear it that search, and I'm sure you don't use %20 in your tags Try to search for "red%20house" for example...no hits. The "searchterm%20searchterm" probably have been saved incorrectly in the searches database because an incorrect "translation" between different encodings (let's says something like computer languages). I have got those searchtems too, and I don't worry about it. Just change %20 for a space in my records. That's the most hassle. Hope it helps! Regards Thank you for that explanation. I will stop cursing whoever is putting %20 in their searches and just curse whatever the computer languages are doing. Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearwater Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 3 hours ago, NYCat said: Thank you for that explanation. I will stop cursing whoever is putting %20 in their searches and just curse whatever the computer languages are doing. Paulette You can only blame a computer Best to worry about anything else... Glad to help. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 I don't mind the %20 as long as i'm getting searches!! John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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