Orange Elephant Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Can anyone advise how to allow only the full phrase in a search? I tried enclosing in quotes, but the Image manager ignores this. I have a steam locomotive image with a nameplate from a company, Beyer Peacock, but it's popping up in searches for "peacock" - which isn't really accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 It isn't possible. Alamy have stated that buyers looking for "rhinoceros beetle" will get 'beetle' as well. Total non-sense and a pity. Gen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Brighton Beach Bikes... swings and roundabouts.. by blocking that search for "brighton beach" (which you dont want), you'd also be blocking seaches for "brighton bikes" (which you do want) live with it and move on km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 I actually find it a very useful feature, having all the words searchable, as can be used to our advantage more often than not. Think about it. Pearl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariaJ Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 I have many photos of my home province of British Columbia and it would be helpful if those keywords didn't cause my images to keep popping up in searches for British __________________ ( and often for Columbia _________ as well). I had hoped that putting them together in one tag would help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 I have many photos of my home province of British Columbia and it would be helpful if those keywords didn't cause my images to keep popping up in searches for British __________________ ( and often for Columbia _________ as well). I had hoped that putting them together in one tag would help. It will. They will rank higher in searches on the phrase that in those for the individual words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Elephant Posted March 8, 2017 Author Share Posted March 8, 2017 Thanks for your replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crellin Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 I also find this maddening - seeing views for searches that never should have brought up the picture. But - there is a BIG but... Alamy see two sides of this and must spend as much time on developing what the buyers want, if not more, than on what we want. And yes maybe some sales for all of us come from the serendipity of a picture the researcher never would have thought to search for being thrown into the mix? I get the impression from the views / zooms ratio that the average picture researcher is quite happy to wade through acres of thumbnails - probably see it as their job. So from now on when I have a colour as a tag I will make it a supertag unless other items get supertags to 10 anyway... John Crellin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 I checked an image of mine. When I enclosed in quotes "red wasp" I got one page of results. When I searched without, I think there were 20 pages or so. Many of yellow/black wasps on a red flower. Any wasp, with something red in the picture. I have red wasp as a phrase. It does seem quotes narrows the search down. Betty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Elephant Posted March 8, 2017 Author Share Posted March 8, 2017 Thanks for your reply Betty I had been hoping to use quotes in the tags, so that the client didn't have to tweak the search. But thank you for your testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.