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August 1, 2023
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search word issues

  • August 1, 2023
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Hello. I don's know what changed lately in the search algorithm but results are irrelevant.

 

A simple serach for " woman dressed in black overcoat" will find on the first page 70% photos in BEIGE overcoats ans a lot of irelevant images.. notice the rat dressed with a trench coat ..

Photos search used to be a simple task and now it's time consuming and frustrating.

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Correct answer WendellaBee

Have you tried using quotation marks around some of your words?

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=woman+%22black+coat%22&search_type=usertyped

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WendellaBee
Adobe Employee
WendellaBeeCorrect answer
Adobe Employee
August 1, 2023

Have you tried using quotation marks around some of your words?

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=woman+%22black+coat%22&search_type=usertyped

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 1, 2023

First: add filters, like this:

, you can also search only for photos, that excludes illustrations and vector.

Then: your search results may be relevant (I won't comment on the rat), as at least some keywords are correctly interpreted.

  • all assets have something black, not necessarily the overcoat, however.
  • all assets have something to do with women.
  • all women are dressed, or the item is for being dressed

 

You may also try boolean operators like “AND”, “OR”, “NOT”.

 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Participant
August 1, 2023

Thank you for your answer, already tried the filters and had even worse results ahah.

Will gie it a go withouth the prepositions though ;).

It used to be much more intuitive. Noticed the same issue on shutterstock since AI search was included.