Shutterstock Photographer Forum :: View topic - multiple keywords

akaiser · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 2379 Location: Munich

I just did a research for one of my own vectors (because I wanted to check whether it's finally searchable) by "fashion engraving"/vectors only/popular, but got a load of images with "engraving" included as a keyword, but *not* "fashion".
Is the search meant to work that way now or is it a new bug? Doesn't make it easier to find what you're looking for, definitely, esp because there isn't any "priority" given to the results with both of the search terms.
Guess, that's why my latest illustrations (still) sell that rarely. :{

smileus · Joined: 07 Oct 2008 Posts: 585

Very interesting. I just tried a similar thing by searching for Christmas tree colorful and checked some of the images on the first two pages for the term colorful. They all had the keyword color, but not colorful. I used most popular and photos only.

But then maybe it's not a good comparison, because color and colorful might be supposed to count as the same word.

I also tried what you did and I can confirm: some results don't contain the word fashion at all.

akaiser · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 2379 Location: Munich

Strangely, it seems to work for some combinations and doesn't for others. I did another couple of test runs yesterday. But it's really hard to find something particular at the moment. I was also searching for some photos I was planning to use for a client's greeting card and remembered some I had seen before (unfortunately not the photogs, tho) - absolutely impossible.

forumguru · Joined: 28 Sep 2011 Posts: 367

Hi all,

I'm looking into this now. Could you send me some image IDs for the problematic images so that we can investigate. Thanks!

akaiser · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 2379 Location: Munich

Thanks for the speedy reply!
I was searching for this one:

("fashion engraving"/vectors only/popular) and it wasn't there (accepted about a week ago), but I got a load of floral stuff and abstract frames as search results.
I already wrote to support telling them this one isn't yet fully searchable. It gets found by different keywords/combinations (e.g. "fashion 20s"), tho.

akaiser · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 2379 Location: Munich

This one isn't searchable, either. ("fir (alternatively "firtree") border christmas"/vectors only/popular)

peteklinger · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:10 am

firtree search, page six. Isn't that pretty good placement?

Did I miss something? Why "firtree" all mashed together?

akaiser · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 2379 Location: Munich

First of all, the one in your screenshot isn't my image.
Also, I don't doubt that it's searchable by just the word firtree, but it isn't by the *combinations* of words I've quoted above. (Have you ever tried to find a particular image just by searching "christmas"? Graphic designers don't work that way.)
Plus, you've obviously done a research for both photos and illustrations.
"Firtree" instead of "fir tree", because both exist - I've used a dictionary and added both.
Sorry, but I'm *not* stupid. If you do it the way I described, you'll notice that there's something wrong.