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08.26.05
Perfect
10 Sues Google Over Image Search Results
 By
Chris Richardson
The hotlinking of images is a concern for web owners who have bandwidth issues
to consider. Because of this, a number of smaller sites have resorted to blocking
one of the biggest hotlinking "offenders," Google's image search.
Another issue facing Google Image Search has to do with the serving of copywritten
images. A number of companies don't like their images being shown in GIS results
and they normally take steps to prevent this from happening. In fact, Google provides
instructions on how to remove images from Google's index. However, to some
companies, apparently this is not enough.
Take, for example, Perfect 10, an adult content web site that provides a large
number of images for their audience. According to CNET
News.com, Perfect 10 is seeking an injunction against Google for displaying
images that are protected under Perfect 10's copyright. In their filing, which
was done in the US District Court in Los Angeles, Perfect 10 asked the court to
have Google cease displaying these images in their image search.
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Perfect 10's injunction filing goes hand-in-hand with a copyright infringement
lawsuit the site filed against Google in November. Perfect 10 owner, Norm Zada,
indicated he had requested Google to cease showing the images in question, which
apparently number in the 3000s, back in November of 2001. This request was done
under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
There is a level of confusion surrounding Zada's complaint, however. He states
that Google is "copying and showing our work on their Web site. They are also
placing ads on these Web sites that are infringing on our work." Does this mean
he has issues with other sites showing Perfect 10's images or with Google Image
Search? If the issue is about other site's displaying Perfect 10's images that
subsequently show up in a GIS query, then his gripe is with the sites that have
stolen his work, not Google. If Zada's complaint centers on these images appearing
in Google's image SERPs, then perhaps he should have his IT department take some
steps to ensure this doesn't happen.
For instance, Perfect 10 could follow
the steps provided by Google, which say:
To remove an image from Google's image index, add a robots.txt file
to the root of the server. (If you can't put it in the server root, you can put
it at directory level.)
Example: If you want Google to exclude the dogs.jpg image that
appears on your site at www.yoursite.com/images/dogs.jpg, create a page at www.yoursite.com/robots.txt
and add the following text:
User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /images/dogs.jpg
To remove all the images on your site from our index, place the following robots.txt
file in your server root:
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
This is the standard protocol that most web crawlers observe for excluding a web
server or directory from an index. More information on robots.txt is
available here.
Or, a simple Google search of blocking
image hotlinking finds a number of resources providing
step-by-step instructions on how to prevent image hotlinking from occurring
by using an edited .htaccess file. And yes, this technique works in Google Image
Search as well.
About the Author:
Chris Richardson is a search engine writer and editor for WebProNews.
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