Flickr Search Flatlines for 14 Hours and Counting
Written by on March 10th, 2007 in Ajax News.
I’m at SXSW, former TechCrunch writer Marshall Kirkpatrick is here as well and just tipped me off that for the past 14 hours, Flickr’s tag search hasn’t been displaying recently uploaded photos in search results.
I just verified this by uploading my own photo and tagging it ’sxsw’. You can view the photo if you know the link to it, however a search for ’sxsw’ doesn’t display this. Clicking on the tag ’sxsw’ also yields no results for my account in spite of just tagging the photo. I also checked to see if the problem was just for ‘sxsw‘ by doing a search for ‘music‘, and the same problem occurs — the last photos tagged with ‘music’ are from yesterday.
Marshall likely noticed this because he’s blogging from SXSW for SplashCast and initially reported stats on how many photos have been tagged recently with ’sxsw’ — and definitely sounded as though he was going to report this daily.
Editor’s Note: This post by Steve Poland, whose blog Techquila Shots brainstorms web start-up ideas. Steve is at SXSW and would love to chat with anyone — feel free to email him.
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Source: TechCrunch
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