Michael_Jacobs Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 When searching for publications I use the following: "my name alamy" -alamy.com I then do a general search, look into google images, news and books. I also noticed that doing an advance search in google, changing language will give you very different results, and thus found a publication in French, for example... Do you have any other tips for searching??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 deleted. got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_Jacobs Posted December 12, 2017 Author Share Posted December 12, 2017 I search on Google and then do an "advanced search" and change language... Besides: Bing actually gives me the same results but in a more relevant order... Yahoo, msn don't give me better results... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Thanks for the tip. English does usually find my European book uses but your way has them nearer the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 3 hours ago, Michael_Jacobs said: When searching for publications I use the following: "my name alamy" - alamy.com I then do a general search, look into google images, news and books. I also noticed that doing an advance search in google, changing language will give you very different results, and thus found a publication in French, for example... Do you have any other tips for searching??? Yes: no space between the - and alamy.com. Use -alamy.com to exclude the whole Alamy site. You are probably using it this way, but the rest of the readers who are now trying this, are not getting a very clean result. Very good advice about the language. I have tried Japanese on occasions - with success. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 41 minutes ago, wiskerke said: Yes: no space between the - and alamy.com. Use -alamy.com to exclude the whole Alamy site. You are probably using it this way, but the rest of the readers who are now trying this, are not getting a very clean result. Very good advice about the language. I have tried Japanese on occasions - with success. wim +1 Yes, thanks. I'd never even thought about searching using different languages! <slaps head> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 That just brought up pages of images. ”betty larue alamy”-alamy.com what am I doing wrong? Do I put that in Google images or just the general search box? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 1 minute ago, Betty LaRue said: That just brought up pages of images. ”betty larue alamy”-alamy.com what am I doing wrong? Do I put that in Google images or just the general search box? You need a space between the " and the - ”betty larue alamy” -alamy.com Btw I would use the quotes like "betty larue" alamy as some books have a whole section for Alamy in their credits list. So a search for "your name Alamy" will not find you. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 It worked, Wim, thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 What do you do if you find an image used that hasn't been recorded as a sale? Fill in the 'unauthorised use' form? John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_Jacobs Posted December 13, 2017 Author Share Posted December 13, 2017 Stokie, from what I understand from Alamy, you should wait 3 months from the date of publication and then contact the contributor relations... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokie Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 1 minute ago, Michael_Jacobs said: Stokie, from what I understand from Alamy, you should wait 3 months from the date of publication and then contact the contributor relations... This is a webuse by an academic site in Portugal and the image was used in January 2017. I've gone through my sales from Sept 2016 to date and I can't find a sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 This is my 'standard search': "Matthew Ashmore" alamy -alamy.com -alamy.de I filter out alamy.de as well as alamy.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Just now, Matt Ashmore said: This is my 'standard search': "Matthew Ashmore" alamy -alamy.com -alamy.de I filter out alamy.de as well as alamy.com Clever. However Google somehow does not pick up many from the Alamy.de site in my case. Is that different for you? For others? - I know I can do the same search, but Google does tailor it's results a lot. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 11 minutes ago, wiskerke said: Clever. However Google somehow does not pick up many from the Alamy.de site in my case. Is that different for you? For others? - I know I can do the same search, but Google does tailor it's results a lot. wim I do find 5 or 6 turning up so decided to just start filtering them out. It tends to depend on where I am when I run the search though. If I am in the office at work, our corporate gateway to the internet is in Amsterdam so Google seems to want to return lots of dutch links (even though I have google.co.uk set as my default search engine and have configured Chrome not to do country based redirection). If I search from home, the results are slightly different as I live in the UK and my home interent connection joins the internet in the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imageplotter Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 15 hours ago, wiskerke said: Yes: no space between the - and alamy.com. Use -alamy.com to exclude the whole Alamy site. You are probably using it this way, but the rest of the readers who are now trying this, are not getting a very clean result. Very good advice about the language. I have tried Japanese on occasions - with success. wim Cheers Wim, very helpful! Just found a few more uses (all reported), which is great. And one I wish I'd rather not found (in some ways), pic was used by GEO Magazine, acquired for the stately sum of $8.33 with quantity discount, and in the text they got the location wrong, despite the caption, keywords and "location" field all having the correct location. Not so geo -savvy, it seems, or perhaps reading is optional for journalists these days. Oh, well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 I don't understand how changing the language in advanced search helps - it doesn't affect 'Alamy' or your name. Or do you mean you normally restrict the language for most searches? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 39 minutes ago, Phil Robinson said: I don't understand how changing the language in advanced search helps - it doesn't affect 'Alamy' or your name. Or do you mean you normally restrict the language for most searches? In the case of Japanese Google searches Japanese sites it otherwise ignores. I was able to find a cover and some pages in nice books on architecture. wim edit: I started looking because I have had quite a lot of sales to Japan from the Japanese distributor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 So you 41 minutes ago, wiskerke said: In the case of Japanese Google searches Japanese sites it otherwise ignores. I was able to find a cover and some pages in nice books on architecture. wim edit: I started looking because I have had quite a lot of sales to Japan from the Japanese distributor. So you translate the search terms into Japanese characters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 1 hour ago, Phil Robinson said: So you So you translate the search terms into Japanese characters? Lol! No, but the one from my link may have been found through Google Images. The architectural ones came from a general Google search. In those books, most credits were given in western script. Like Michael I use General; Images and Books. News is seldom relevant for mine. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Richmond Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Another source for print magazines is issuu.com. Go into the site and type in (in quotes) "your pseudonym Alamy" in the search box. In my case it's "John Richmond Alamy". It will identify any magazines that have been uploaded to Issuu that have that combination. Open the magazine and use the find facility on the display to show the actual words on the pages and positions they occur. I'm not sure which publishers use Issuu - there seems to be a fair few complete magazines on there that soon disappear so maybe not uploaded by the owners - but it's worth a try to find some of the print uses that will never show up on the net. Good for screenshot tearsheets as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 2 hours ago, John Richmond said: Another source for print magazines is issuu.com. Go into the site and type in (in quotes) "your pseudonym Alamy" in the search box. In my case it's "John Richmond Alamy". It will identify any magazines that have been uploaded to Issuu that have that combination. Open the magazine and use the find facility on the display to show the actual words on the pages and positions they occur. I'm not sure which publishers use Issuu - there seems to be a fair few complete magazines on there that soon disappear so maybe not uploaded by the owners - but it's worth a try to find some of the print uses that will never show up on the net. Good for screenshot tearsheets as well. There are some more like these, but not all have a search function. Or not anymore, because AFAIK they have all had one. www.ink-live.com travel - mainly the in-flight magazines we all love. No search engine for the whole site, but each magazine is clickable and within each magazine there is a search box and really often Alamy images are being used - with full credit. uk.zinio.com and us.zinio.com and nl/zinio.com and so on. www.scribd.com still offers a search box, but very little turns up anymore. Works well with your name/pseudo. www.pressreader.com formerly www.pressdisplay.com . Yudu http://www.yudu.com used to give access to magazines like this one, But I don't see it anymore, maybe they have moved everything to the apps? Or just went behind the paywall of each client. The strange thing is that searches with Google like alamy site:ink-live.com or alamy site:yudu.com don't really work. Suggesting that the Google bots are not allowed to pass the various pay walls either. Really stupid if you ask me. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 And here's another one: https://www.yumpu.com wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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