Thyrsis Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 Looking at All of Alamy sales in ‘measures’ there are 11 sales for the search ‘alamytestimage’. Puzzled as to why anyone would search/buy using that search term? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 Alamy development engineers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 But surely Alamy engineers wouldn't be on the list of preferred customers? They would know that any test searches would skew CTR and rankings. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 Alamy testing on a live server? It's been done before elsewhere... Gen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptoprocta Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 15 minutes ago, Inchiquin said: But surely Alamy engineers wouldn't be on the list of preferred customers? They would know that any test searches would skew CTR and rankings. Alan I think that the list of 'preferred customers' is much bigger than we think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Yates Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 Testing sale and refund process maybe. Craig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 Testing whether or not searches from preferred customers are properly recorded in AOA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 5 hours ago, Cryptoprocta said: I think that the list of 'preferred customers' is much bigger than we think. It might be, but it's under Alamy's control and I can't believe they would put their own test engineers on it. Doesn't make sense. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 Sometimes bugs in software can be hard to track down and reproduce in a test or development environment and so occasionally the best course is to reproduce it in production. There are only 33 images which are returned by the search engine in response to a search for the tag "alamytestimage" of which 7 have text over them like this: As for the remaining images in the 33 which are not "Alamy's", you have to wonder why a contributor would use the tag "alamytestimage". So hopefully this isn't really impacting too many peoples' CTR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thyrsis Posted May 22, 2018 Author Share Posted May 22, 2018 Three of the images look identical but their captions are: BH6EG4 ALAMYTESTIMAGE*NOTFORSALE* BH6EG4 ALAMYTESTIMAGE*NOTFORSALE* ReadOnly switiching issue testing Stock Photo - BH6EG4 ALAMYTESTIMAGE*NOTFORSALE* Read only test. Don't delete - used for monitoring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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