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Written by Ron Rovtar, Managing Editor, the Stock Asylum
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 |
 The launch this week of a test version of Alamy's new keyword measuring tool could represent a significant improvement for photographers who are serious about licensing their images.
Though stock photography distributors increasingly require that photographers keyword their own images, the actual practice of assigning appropriate descriptive words to an image remains baffling.
It is impossible to fully imagine exactly which words and terms another person might use in searching for an image. This in itself can result in a significant level of anxiety for photographers whose livelihoods depend on showing the right images to appropriate buyers.
But, the situation is exacerbated, when distributors provide little information about the inner workings of their particular search engines. Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, plurals, phrases, misspellings and a number of other factors can be handled differently by various search engines. This means images with the same set of keywords will provide inconsistent results from different search engines.
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