Thursday, March 19, 2009

Smugmug ignores the Image search problem.

I thought that Smugmug was up to date with the principles of effective image search by popular image searching from Google, Yahoo, MSN and others They are not. They live in a world that stopped for at least 5 years ago.
Google Image Search indexes for example only ca. 1% of their images, and half of them refer to another picture on Smugmug than the image you see at Google's image search.
As a reference 50% of my pictures posted on Panoramio are indexed.

If Smugmug cannot find a solution to this little problem, then what is the advantage of a big site like Smugmug, if your images are not visible in search engines?

Ida think that I should make my own photo agency on the net with all the necessary functions, and it may also be the end result.

Smugmug is a great and old-fashioned company who have lost all sense of reality and they have indeed gone down in Google's rating of 8 to 7 not long ago and will probably go down further if they do not improve very soon.

So, SMUGMUG, do something very soon.

Their forum DGRIN are as always helpful with all kind of primitive workarounds, but when it comes to really serious questions, they simply do not even bother to react. It is really BIG company against "little stupid customer".
This is really not what I expected of a "respectable" company like Smugmug.
This Image Search (and normal text search) issue have been a problem for a lot of their customer for at least 2 years. They have done absolutely NOTHING so far.

So, once more, SMUGMUG, do something very soon.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I've been reading through your posts on this issue. Have to say I agree 100% and hopefully something will be done soon by SM to make our images more accessible to GIS.

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