imageplotter Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 On 25/06/2022 at 10:23, PAL Media said: Search Boris Johnson works as it should IF you use the Date Taken ie. A Newspaper will not want to go through 13,000 images they will specify a date taken, lets take 'Last Week' This will narrow the search down to 573 images If we include imageplotter as contributor its shows 12 images This has lots of bugs and needs to be fixed ASAP Well, to be fair, most of the newspapers don't search much of anything, they get sent pics. But some of those lovely, all new, all shiny bulk clients clearly went via the "latest images" button to get to their $1.42 gross images. A one click, instant results operation, which is now being lengthened to a click down menu thing. Not sure they'll be too happy. It's the quality of the results that worries me more, though. Joe Average stock buyer may not require yesterday's images, but may well have clicked on "latest" to get something vaguely newish, thus avoiding anything visibly too obviously older. But the page that now comes up as the first search results for common search terms contains a lot of bulked together images from a small number of contributors, and often these images are old, less relevant and not great quality. It seems lazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Richards Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 13 hours ago, PAL Media said: For Live News, of course. I quite like the new menu layout but it has been overly complicated with the addition of the Creative Sub Menus, something like this would have been much better: All | Creative | Editorial | Latest | News or similar without the need for sub menus Agree with the search engine, exceptionally slow and the results are not good. Search 'hastings' with my contributor name returns 653 images, I have over 3,500 images according to AIM, where's the rest???!!! If I can't find them who will And probably the cause of the worst month to date since I started uploading to Alamy 5 years ago Customers must be deserting in droves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 For goodness sake, Alamy, why has Measures not been working for days on end? An explanation at least would suffice. Or have I missed something? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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