Errors in captions and keywords

[Bryan]

Maybe I'm alone in this, but I often find errors or omissions in my captions or keywords, to the extent that I always take at least one other look a day or so after saving. Despite this, the odd mistake still gets through.  Sometimes I pick this up from a weird customer search term appearing in my Alamy Measures.

 

One is getting old.....

 

I am prompted to write this, as you might have guessed, due to having had to correct text in a couple of titles !

[Michael Ventura]

I have found lots of typos in mine over the years

[Martin L]

I don't ave a problem az mi grammar and spilling is rilly grate

Edited February 25, 2023 by Martin L
Grammar und spilling

[Mr Standfast]

Mine are shocking. When I look for 3 pictures for the monthly competyion I always find a mistake. Onwards and upwords...

[Betty LaRue]

Just a couple of days ago, I found an error in a caption. What’s so frustrating, it was in an older image, part of my first 5,000. That group was the ones that tag phrases were fractured when Alamy changed everything..got rid of the 3 keyword boxes.  I went over & fixed all 5,000 images & revised many of the captions while I was at it. I worked on them every day for several months, though. Tired eyes….tired brain…

[Steve F]

Hey Brian et al,

Don't know if I count as a young 'un at 41, but I have a similar problem with captions and keywords. It just happens - I'm certainly normally doing it late at night.

Steve

[Inchiquin]

I recently had to notify Alamy of an incorrect caption after spotting it when an image was sold. Needless to say the sale was refunded a couple of days later

 

Alan

 

[Harry Harrison]

You could always download the csv and run it through a spell checker, there will be a lot of 'false positives' but it could be helpful.

[NYCat]

8 hours ago, Betty LaRue said:

Just a couple of days ago, I found an error in a caption. What’s so frustrating, it was in an older image, part of my first 5,000. That group was the ones that tag phrases were fractured when Alamy changed everything..got rid of the 3 keyword boxes.  I went over & fixed all 5,000 images & revised many of the captions while I was at it. I worked on them every day for several months, though. Tired eyes….tired brain…

 

I didn't check all my images after the changes and now sometimes when I go back to an old image I find a bunch of keywords were stuck together in a string. So annoying.

 

Paulette

[Cal]

18 minutes ago, NYCat said:

 

I didn't check all my images after the changes and now sometimes when I go back to an old image I find a bunch of keywords were stuck together in a string. So annoying.

 

Paulette

 

That might not be as disadvantageous as it appears. you can search using keywords that only make up part of a keyword phrase and as long as they match the content of the search string the image still appears.

 

it might not do the precise ranking of the image any favours, but if someone searches "dress" and you have an image with the keyword phrase "red dress catwalk" it should still include it, according to several tests I've carried out.

[Bryan]

3 hours ago, Inchiquin said:

I recently had to notify Alamy of an incorrect caption after spotting it when an image was sold. Needless to say the sale was refunded a couple of days later

 

Alan

 

Honesty the best policy !