tarsierspectral Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Checking Alamy measures I noticed that I had images returned for this search: "Île de Ré". My images do not have these keywords. My images have "Ile de Entree" and "Ile de Goree" for keywords. Is this a bug? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDP Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 "Ile de Entree" and "Ile de Goree" Indeed, the Alamy search engine could be improved. Cheers, Philippe Not quite, Philippe! The "Ile de" has come up for the obvious reason but the search engine doesn't return only parts of words as in your explanation. It's just that "re" is one of those words that's ignored in searches - just like "the", "for", "at" (but not "in"), "an" (but not "a") etc. Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Have you put the French accents in your keywords? I find that such diacritic marks sometimes fool some search engines into splitting up a word, assuming that what follows any accent is a new word. (Though thinking about it, that still wouldn't explain the results in this case) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarsierspectral Posted August 31, 2013 Author Share Posted August 31, 2013 Have you put the French accents in your keywords? I find that such diacritic marks sometimes fool some search engines into splitting up a word, assuming that what follows any accent is a new word. (Though thinking about it, that still wouldn't explain the results in this case) no French accents in my keywords Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDP Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 "Ile de Entree" and "Ile de Goree" Indeed, the Alamy search engine could be improved. Cheers, Philippe Not quite, Philippe! The "Ile de" has come up for the obvious reason but the search engine doesn't return only parts of words as in your explanation. It's just that "re" is one of those words thats ignored in searches like "the", "for", "at" (but not "in"), "an" (but not "a") etc. Ian Euh......... Ian, you're absolutely right. Did a quick check and indeed - when you search for Ile de Ré - there are images which pop up and do not have words containing "re" in the description nor in the essential keywords. Another lesson learned Cheers, Philippe Philippe, The easiest way to check for these ignored words is to do a search for something - say "man" - and see how many results come up. Then try putting something in front - such as "re", "the", "an", etc - and see how many results then appear. If it's the same, then the extra word is being ignored - if the total has gone down, then it's being picked up. Ian PS. I'm sure there's a correct technical term for these redundant words in searches but I can't for the life of me remember what it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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