Search Innovations Needed

Posted on 1/21/2016 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (2)

More images are not the answer. The industry needs to find a better way to present the images already in databases for customer consideration. Customers find it harder and harder to dig out the right image for their needs from todays large databases. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the right images aren’t there. It’s just that customers do not have time to search through all the available options.

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Petri Oskari Rahja Posted Jan 23, 2016
The whole search model is wrong. Why you need to search images, if you can ask/request one. The on-demand photography is the answer: You get exactly what you want without any search and actually with an outcome that is exactly what you look for.

When I chat with people they claim spending hours (6-8) to find/search an "ok" image. When they find/buy one they spend extra 20+ hours to photoshop it, to make it perfect. This workflow is still from 90's and we are living 2016 already...

Mike Betts Posted Jan 29, 2016
Back when I was a regular Getty contributor a few years back I remember them bringing in this exact feature, but I think it only applied to similars by the same photographer. It was quite frustrating from the photographer's perspective as you felt that in some cases quite different images were being linked together, and so you got less real estate on the search results page, but I'm sure it was useful for the buyers.

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