Alamy 165 Posted January 16, 2015 Get the inside view on the most searched terms across 2014. Read more... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John Mitchell 3,205 Posted January 16, 2015 (edited) Informative post. Thanks. By the way, the following sentence does not pass grammatical QC, so you might want to correct the error and resubmit: "Number four on the list was “Stockimo” which also bagged top spot for the most amount of images viewed;" It should be "the highest number of images viewed." Images are countable, so technically you need to use "number." "Amount" is used for non-countable quantities -- e.g. amount of flour, rain, etc. Sorry to be such a stickler. Edited January 16, 2015 by John Mitchell 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Martin P Wilson 1,131 Posted January 16, 2015 I hate hearing "fewer" and "less" being confused. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John Mitchell 3,205 Posted January 16, 2015 I hate hearing "fewer" and "less" being confused. Me too. It's epidemic these days. There would be less confusion if fewer people misused them. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Linda 352 Posted January 16, 2015 Perhaps "Less is more" LOL L Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John Mitchell 3,205 Posted January 16, 2015 Perhaps "Less is more" LOL L apparently so these days Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bill Brooks 1,102 Posted January 16, 2015 (edited) Thanks to Ben Gray for an easy to understand article about keywording. Edited January 16, 2015 by Bill Brooks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
losdemas 1,975 Posted January 16, 2015 Informative post. Thanks. By the way, the following sentence does not pass grammatical QC, so you might want to correct the error and resubmit: "Number four on the list was “Stockimo” which also bagged top spot for the most amount of images viewed;" It should be "the highest number of images viewed." Images are countable, so technically you need to use "number." "Amount" is used for non-countable quantities -- e.g. amount of flour, rain, etc. Sorry to be such a stickler. I hate hearing "fewer" and "less" being confused. I've felt the same until recently. However, common usage will out and the use of 'fewer' is disappearing (I believe that it's a relatively recent construct, in any case). Grammatical correctness depends upon usage: if no-one (nobody? ) uses a term, phrase or structure anymore, then it ceases to be grammatically correct for the simple fact that it ceases to exist! I live in the south of England. I live fewer miles from Martin than I do from John, but could I still get to Martin's house in fewer than 2 minutes? No! But I could get there in less than 3 days! BTW (aaargh - let's not go there! And as for 'smileys' . And starting a sentence with 'And'), I am also beginning to have difficulty communicating with my near-teen daughter. Evolution or revolution? Perhaps "Less is more" LOL L I think that you'll find that fewer is less. Umm least. I mean fewer. Do I?! .... Does that get me back on-topic? Sorry, but it is the weekend. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John Mitchell 3,205 Posted January 17, 2015 (edited) Yes, there are fewer and fewer people using "fewer" these days. And a number of really young ones have probably never even heard the word spoken. I'm going to blame all this mainly on an educational system that no longer sees any value in teaching children the rules of traditional English grammar and usage. But no amount of complaining is going to undo what has been done. "Most amount of images" it is then. Interestingly enough, people who learn English as a second language now often speak more gramatically "correct" English than native speakers because in order to learn the language, they actually have to study some grammar. Edited January 17, 2015 by John Mitchell Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wiskerke 2,649 Posted January 17, 2015 Get the inside view on the most searched terms across 2014. Read more... Do the sales follow the same ranking? More dogs than cats? More Paris than London? More Lego than chocolate? More sky than water? More champagne than piggy bank? According to All of Alamy this is the best selling (49x - 2 UCO - ) image ever: Or has it been refunded 24 times? Don't you love lists? I do. This is my favorite list from the same data: Search Term UCO Zooms baseball logo 2 253 Dog Beach Sea 1 177 taylor kitsch 2 158 the new forest BRITAIN 1 157 mature person portrait 1 154 turkey aegean 1 147 horse animal 2 143 Sea Horse Beach 1 141 county wicklow ireland 1 128 emsland 1 137 Who said clients always go for the top 3 rows of the first page? Oops. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. wim Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bill Brooks 1,102 Posted January 18, 2015 Wim: Thanks for the reminder that some statistics do not make sense. All those zooms could be by an Alamy image buyer account holder who is doing subject research for his other business. The other business being stock photography. Statistics are always correct. It is the interpretation that is frequently wrong. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TokyoM1ke 124 Posted January 18, 2015 Statistics are always correct. It is the interpretation that is frequently wrong. Sorry, I just can't let that pass - [Rant Mode On] Statistics are frequently wrong because the person presenting them doesn't check that the inputs are valid and the calculations have been done correctly. I can cite some published by the BIS (Bank for International Settlements) from a couple of years ago which are just plain wrong (some of the instruments they gave stats for simply don't exist). You might argue that the underlying numbers are correct but just misunderstood and misinterpreted... would that really mean that the statistics are correct? [\Rant Mode Off] Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bill Brooks 1,102 Posted January 18, 2015 I stand corrected TokyoM1ke, and of course governments often fudge the data in order to mislead. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
