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More room for specialists in the search results

Permalink Comments (7)18 September 2007 at 16:47 by James Allsworth
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The technical team at Alamy are busy working on improvements to AlamySearch and in particular version 2 of the Diversity algorithm.

In version 1, introduced on 10th October 2006, the purpose of the diversity algorithm was to ensure that the search results were not dominated by any single pseudonym. This is still the main objective, but we will be further enhancing the algorithm to consider the number of images present from a single pseudonym within the result set and where appropriate give those images more visibility.

This change in the algorithm will be of interest to those suppliers that are specialists in a particular subject or category.

The new algorithm is currently under development and will be released in Q4 2007.

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  1. 18 September 2007 at 18:05 Ian murray

    "In version 1, introduced on 10th October 2006, the purpose of the diversity algorithm was to ensure that the search results were not dominated by any single pseudonym."

    As a result some contributors have apparently split their collections into as many pseudonyms as possible in a bid to continue to dominate search results. I have no idea of the effect of this.

    Having read the announcement above several times I really have no idea what it actually means. Sorry if it is me being dim but is there any chance of more clarification?

  2. 18 September 2007 at 18:05 Ben Plewes

    Sounds good. I'm looking forward to all the developments we're likely to see this side of Christmas. Particularly looking forward to any kind of alamy rank feedback so we can improve / streamline our collections.

  3. 18 September 2007 at 21:17 Mark Scheuern

    This is excellent news. Much appreciated.

  4. 18 September 2007 at 22:47 Phil Robinson

    It will be interesting to see how the new algoritm differentiates between true specialists with an in-depth collection of a particular subject, and those who have submitted endless 'similars' with nothing to chose between them - something Alamyrank is designed to discourage, I believe.

  5. 19 September 2007 at 18:35 Dennis

    A small retro-step in the ranking algorithm ? Only time will tell.

  6. 19 September 2007 at 19:48 Chris Potter

    I'm with Ian on this one...what does it actually mean????

  7. 19 September 2007 at 20:20 Ladi kirn

    Joining Ien and Chris
    For me too, this is "Soft and lacking definition" :-).
    My we,at least hope that these new algorithms will not punish those of us who did not fiddle with multiple pseudonyms?

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