mickfly Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 http://www.alamy.com/blog/how-to-find-creative-content-online1. Images As always, Google Images is a great starting-point when you’re looking for images.Surely if they have found the Alamy blog page, they should be being sold the Alamy stock, but, it goes on to suggest finding images on instagram and even the horror that is Pinterest!No mention of the pitfalls or illegality of using 'found' images.Seems crazy to me, but that's just my opinion, anyone else have an opinion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radim Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 I agree, I think that these recommendations are misleading and very unprofessional. It's only half the truth. Unfortunately, the blog Alamy Radim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Yeah.. I did wonder myself why an Alamy blog would suggest looking for images anywhere other than on Alamy. It's a bit like an Ebay blog suggesting you look for an item on Google.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 It's never too late to change things in the digital world. How about making the following edit: 1. Images As always, Alamy is a great starting-point when you’re looking for images. Just sayin'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickfly Posted January 11, 2016 Author Share Posted January 11, 2016 It's never too late to change things in the digital world. How about making the following edit: 1. Images As always, Alamy is a great starting-point when you’re looking for images. Just sayin'... Unfortunately, there's not enough saying... it seems that any post which might be construed as critical is very often avoided like the plague by regular posters, but it's pointless commenting on the blog because they don't answer blog comments as a rule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 It's never too late to change things in the digital world. How about making the following edit: 1. Images As always, Alamy is a great starting-point when you’re looking for images. Just sayin'... Unfortunately, there's not enough saying... it seems that any post which might be construed as critical is very often avoided like the plague by regular posters, but it's pointless commenting on the blog because they don't answer blog comments as a rule. No, but perhaps "they" will make some changes in the future. I don't think I am a regular poster, but why shouldn't the regular posters comment if they found it necessary? Perhaps the shallowness and naivety in the blog entry has already been exposed by the first posters. I am dead tired of most shallow bloggers and their likewise blogs (though some seems intelligent and worthwhile reading) - and the same kind of people stating that they "get their news and information mainly from the social media". Good grief.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 It's never too late to change things in the digital world. How about making the following edit: 1. Images As always, Alamy is a great starting-point when you’re looking for images. Just sayin'... Unfortunately, there's not enough saying... it seems that any post which might be construed as critical is very often avoided like the plague by regular posters, but it's pointless commenting on the blog because they don't answer blog comments as a rule. No, but perhaps "they" will make some changes in the future. I don't think I am a regular poster, but why shouldn't the regular posters comment if they found it necessary? Perhaps the shallowness and naivety in the blog entry has already been exposed by the first posters. I am dead tired of most shallow bloggers and their likewise blogs (though some seems intelligent and worthwhile reading) - and the same kind of people stating that they "get their news and information mainly from the social media". Good grief.... Let's hope that "they" do make some changes in the future. It's difficult to understand how a post like this helps Alamy market our images. But perhaps I'm missing something...?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 The blog post is surprising, to say the least. It reads like an independent blog post with suggestions for designers looking for inspiration or sources for imagery. It most certainly does not belong on the Alamy Website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickfly Posted January 13, 2016 Author Share Posted January 13, 2016 The blog post is surprising, to say the least. It reads like an independent blog post with suggestions for designers looking for inspiration or sources for imagery. It most certainly does not belong on the Alamy Website. It does look like an independent blog post, and it's not the first... http://www.alamy.com/blog/how-to-buy-images-and-stock-photos-onlinefrom the same staff member, perhaps there's an explanation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDoug Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 http://www.alamy.com/blog/how-to-find-creative-content-online 1. Images As always, Google Images is a great starting-point when you’re looking for images. I'm still noticing gaps in Alamy's search. There's a particular keyword set where an image of mine should appear but does not. If I do the same search on Google images, there is the image with a link to Alamy. So a Google search finds the image on Alamy but an Alamy search does not. This leaves me thinking a Google images search really is a good place to start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinS Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Looks like the post contains some iffy legal info: "...What’s more, when you find the perfect image on Alamy, you can legally own the image in just a few clicks… Start your search now!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TokyoM1ke Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 http://www.alamy.com/blog/how-to-find-creative-content-online 1. Images As always, Google Images is a great starting-point when you’re looking for images. I'm still noticing gaps in Alamy's search. There's a particular keyword set where an image of mine should appear but does not. If I do the same search on Google images, there is the image with a link to Alamy. So a Google search finds the image on Alamy but an Alamy search does not. This leaves me thinking a Google images search really is a good place to start. I've seen a multitude of comments on Alamy's search. Comparing to Google is in the "apples and pears" category. Google is massive and invests in its search algorithms, continually updating and reindexing. Alamy can't work on that scale. "Fiddling" with how your keywords are interpreted wouldn't make them any friends here. I'm not sure what best solution is; I imagine that Alamy regularly review their sales vs searches vs customer suggestions/complaints vs active customer accounts and act... when sales are sufficiently below expectations to warrant the upheaval of a search engine update. So ultimately, you may be better starting with Google for certain searches but maybe not if you want today's images and to not miss the one that Google hasn't indexed yet. I wonder if Alamy have already approached Google/Yahoo/etc. and considered licensing their engine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDoug Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 " I wonder if Alamy have already approached Google/Yahoo/etc. and considered licensing their engine?" That might be a good idea. Google's problem, though, is they tend to throw in a lot of unrelated images along with the relevant ones. Like (hypothetically) you search Pudong and they have images of Richard Nixon because "only Nixon could go to China." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TokyoM1ke Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 " I wonder if Alamy have already approached Google/Yahoo/etc. and considered licensing their engine?" That might be a good idea. Google's problem, though, is they tend to throw in a lot of unrelated images along with the relevant ones. Like (hypothetically) you search Pudong and they have images of Richard Nixon because "only Nixon could go to China." Yes but Google (and Yahoo and others) do this commercially for other organisations - specialised indexing for a particular purpose, not just the standard Google search that you typically run into... No idea on cost though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 I imagine that Alamy are counting on the idea that, having opened up their pages (and therefore, images) to Google's engine via their robots.txt file, then anyone searching for their chosen subject using Google will have a good chance of finding many Alamy images in the returned results...and therefore come back to the kind benefactor who offered the advice in the first place? I can't see Alamy considering it being worthwhile paying Google for a specialised service. I would think that their (relatively) recent changes in keywording policy were based around getting Google's default engine spidering to do this work for them? Doubtless they have been monitoring this closely and are presumably pleased with the results - hence a 'trawling' blog post confident in sending visitors off into the wild again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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