City Location block not searchable

I thought I'd move this to a thread of it's own so artists won't be confused.

I just did a test of searching for my small home town. The only results were when the name was either in the description or keywords. If the city was only in the "City" data block the resulting footage was not shown.

Hope this gets fixed very quickly. Location is an extremely important search term. To avoid duplication I know many or most of us have not included the city in the keywords and had faith that the City data block had some meaning.

That's absolute unacceptable that curators tell us to fill Location Country & City text boxes, .... while it is useless!
I get headache when thinking about to have to control a few thousand clips if i included the location in the keywords. For my luck in the most clips i'm sure to have done so, but not always.

IMO

Most important! City and Country should be within your headline and Keywords which is searchable by Google and P5. Location city and country are NOT important.

When you have City and country name in Headline, it is enough to be searched. And should not worry.

The curators are trained to ask artists to upload files with all information fields completed, that's all. But it is true that those fields aren't used in search at this time. The places you want the words people may use when searching for your content are: title, description, and keywords.

I posted this in the other thread, but I'll say it here too. Right now, it sounds like I'll be able to get the team to make some changes here. We may or may not remove the fields, but we'll probably have the system automatically move the location info into the keywords for you, so you won't have to do any work updating files. I'm making the task request for this today, so it'll probably be a little bit before it happens, but I'll keep ya'll informed. :)

@ Jonathon

As you point out, the curators have asked for the location field to be completed, even in those cases where it may not really be relevant. If you take all the location data and include it in the keywords, searches for a particular location will show some results which may seem to be extraneous (e.g. a clip of a bird shot in New York City. It could be anywhere; the fact that the clip was in NYC is probably irrelevant)

The best practice appears to be to always include location keywords if the location is relevant.

I only mention this because attempting to fix one problem (contributors not knowing that location is not searchable) in the way you suggest, may create another one (extraneous results in location searches.)

Further to my comments above, if the plan is to move the location data to keywords as requested by individual contributors, the potential issues I raised would go away ...

@cholmesphoto I agree with you.

This will be the worst thing which could happen.

We will see many birds flying in the NYC sky ;) when we search for just NYC.

But, I always said that, researchers are very smart people.

They will add additional words to "NYC" depends on the needs, such: NYC aerial, NYC skyline, NYC street, NYC skyscrapers and so on.

But isn't the empire state building in salt lake city????

Of course there is! Also, a little model of it on your shelf ;)

@cholmesphoto I agree with you too.

City or country should be in Title/ Headline, and in Keywords.