Aborted Photo Search

[Jim Haskill]

For several months I have periodically put an old photos on the ‘home’ page and let it search. Up until recently the search sequence never stopped until I stopped it. Today, the search sequence stopped and immediately identified a nikon camera  which unfortunately has the same ser. no. but is a different model (mod. D2X). This particular camera always showed up on the dashboard if I clicked on search, but has never showed up on search using a photo.

 

The ‘other’ camera was stolen in 2010, I assume, mine however was stolen this year, in March.

 

I guess what I asking is;

• why all of a sudden is this  ‘other’ camera stopping the photo search when it didn’t before?, and,
• can this ‘other’ camera be somehow excluded from the search?

Your help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

Jim Haskill

[Matt Burns]

Sorry for the delay replying (I've been on holiday).

Search results should always appear instantly. I recently found a bug with certain photos and only on certain versions of Internet Explorer that prevented the results from appearing when using the drag and drop search feature which I have now fixed. I imagine this is why you are now seeing instant results.

When using an image to perform a search, I wouldn't expect a search result to appear that was taken with a different model. Using an image should mean that only sightings with the same serial and make and model. Are you able to send me the photo so that I can take a look at what's happening?