| |  |  |  | | | |  | |  | | Vector .EPS Graphics Now Online | (Published by Keith Tuomi) 5/19/2008 | After a lot of work and some great feedback from Artists and Buyers, we've started to bring .EPS Vector Illustrations online for sale:
http://www.zymmetrical.com/art/graphics/graphicsshapesobjectspeople/fileid/zygfxobj00118/
Vectors are sold at a +40% pricepoint relative to their Raster .JPG versions, due to the great benefit of being able to manipulate the layered graphics any which way you like. Prices, are of course, controlled by the Artists like on the rest of the site, so you will be seeing some great marketplace dynamics going on as each of the Artists jockey for the sweet spot in value vs price.
Stay tuned for more improvements in this dept. in the coming weeks.
| | Tag Searches Enhanced | (Published by Keith Tuomi) 5/10/2008 | We've known from the start that our search and linguistics technology is a step up from the crowd, now we are bringing some new widgets online that take the behind-the-scenes workings a bit more forward into the users realm.
First step: 'Similar Searches' has been added to the bottom of the Tag Search Results screen, providing up to 30 related terms, and it's one smart little box.
Perform a search for a word or phrase, by entering it in our main search input, or clicking the tag link on any art page. As an example, we'll use the word 'break'.
On your results page, http://www.zymmetrical.com/tag-search-results/tag/break/, you will get the usual thumbnail results, and the following 'Similar Search' suggestions:
broken break coffee break broke
breaking broke-back break-dancer
Note the key difference between this and many other agency searches: 'break' is matched to 'broke'. Seems logical enough, however this technique of word-stemming (breaking a word down into it's root form, and matching all it's variations), is not the easiest thing to pull off in computer programming - especially so on a dynamic image library. Fortunately, our coders are well-caffeinated and highly motivated.
For our Buyers, this means a big increase in search satisfaction and more importantly, finding the images they want. In most stock search engines, typing in one variation of a word will -not- return results for the other, including pluralizations. A customer should not miss seeing a file because they typed a slightly different form of a word.
For our Artists, this means simply, more sales and success.
Next step: disambiguation. "Did you mean: Turkey (bird) or Turkey (country)". Stay tuned.
p.s. this word-stemming technology we use works equally well across all 8 languages we support on the site. ;)
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