File:Flickr is a search engine (38788449180).jpg
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Image: Spirogyra, a type of green algae, at 1000X magnification. One thing that differentiates Flickr from other social media where one can post photography is that Flickr functions as a social network AND a search engine. Others, like Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, or Snapchat, primarily only function as social networks. I have 2063 Flickr images that have over 10,000 views; my most viewed photo has 522,000 views. For a photo with 10,000 views, about 1000 views will come from Flickr contacts, and maybe another 250 if I post to groups. That means close to 90% of the views I get are coming from people (or bots) finding the image while doing a search on Flickr. For example, if you do a (relevance) search for "film", "2x2", "vibration", "facets", "tissue", or "pastel", as well as many other words, my image shows up as the first one on the first page. This means every time someone search for these words, I am getting views on that image. Now granted, that doesn't mean they open the photo, but it does mean I have a higher chance than almost anyone of them doing so. So this is what yields the other 9000 views on an image with 10,000 views. Since I make all of my posts "creative commons", it means people can use them for free, with attribution. People looking for content on Flickr to use will often filter for "CC", so this really tends to push most of my images to the top of searches. In turn, these images are use by media, from the Atlantic to your mom and pop blogs. I have no way to know how many additional views I get from these, but I get used by media about five times a day. Flick is designed to optimize search, giving users a choice of "recent", "relevant", or "interesting". It's "interestingness" algorithm is patented, and will tend to give a boost to newcomers, so they can get off the ground. Now, you can even couple search words with color or topical categories. The other photography platforms either don't support strong search functions or are too huge and diffuse for people to use for image search. How do you get your photo though up to the top of the Flickr search engine? Herein comes the connection to Flickr the social network. Your friends and contacts are the ones who give you that initial rocket boost, and your momentum is carried by both the quality of your photo and your expertise at using the title, text, tags, and notes to maximize the strength of being linked to particular search words. |
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| Source | Flickr is a search engine |
| Author | Kevin Dooley from Chandler, AZ, USA |
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- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by kevin dooley at https://flickr.com/photos/12836528@N00/38788449180 (archive). It was reviewed on 4 December 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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