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02/06/2007 05:43:25 PM · #1 |
Alamy recently instituted a new ranking system (AlamySearch) that affects the order in which images come up in a search. While it's rare that a buyer automatically chooses from the first page of a search, few have the patience to go through all the pages if the search returns a significant number of images.
Apparently, there are three factors in determining order:
- The search engine (matching keywords, etc.)
- AlamyRank (I'll talk more about that later
- Diversity Algorithm (This prevents images form the same photographer from being bunched together.)
The AlamyRank works as follows: (Their words)
"AlamyRank assigns a score to a collection based on the number of times images from a pseudonym have been clicked or purchased in proportion to the number of times they have been viewed by customers.
AlamyRank = Views / (Clicks + Sales)
AlamyRank produces a rank per collection of images (per pseudonym) rather than per image. So a contributor with more than one pseudonym will have been assigned more than one AlamyRank. In the first release, ranks have been calculated from nine months of customer activity. New images added to an existing pseudonym inherit the rank for this pseudonym. New contributors have the median rank assigned to their pseudonyms automatically. This should give them enough visibility from which to calculate a true AlamyRank in time.
The aim is to recalculate AlamyRank on a regular basis at time intervals to be determined from what is learnt over the first launch period."
I thought this was interesting. It will be interesting to see how this affects sales. After reading this, I created a separate pseudonym for my lesser images.
Message edited by author 2007-02-06 17:43:46. |
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02/06/2007 06:24:47 PM · #2 |
Goodness me, I'll have to think on this. Thanks for sharing.
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02/07/2007 01:19:03 AM · #3 |
thats really interesting, it was always such a bummer having my images in the back of the pack- glad to see there is some method to it at least
ian
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