stupid google image search

[tomtvr]

anyone notice that these days pretty much half the images say 'page cannot be found' after you have clicked on the thumbnail?

back in my day you clicked on it and you got to see it.

i wonder why this is, can google detect images that have previouisly been deleted? or are the sites just blocking links via search engines?

this hes really annoyed me because i had just selected what looked to be a nice juicey picture of the back of a Tuscan and then it couldent find the page!!

[rpguk]

Often a top place on images.google can cost a lot of money with no return. For example if I had a 100k image which came up top on search for TVR Tuscan then there would be a hell of a lot of people coming just to get the image and pissing off. Thats a lot of bandwidth. If I was top for TVR Tuscan on google.com it wouldn't be so bad as I'd be getting loads of 'proper' hits. Therefore I'd probably just remove or rename the image so people only get an error page rather then take 100k of my bandwidth.

The other thing which occurs is that some people have their server set up to reject remote image linking and can interpret the image.google search as remote linking.

I agree though it really is annoying.

>> Edited by rpguk on Friday 14th January 15:29

[Plotloss]

Its because the image crawler rolls around the web quite slowly.

So the image crawler hits a site and finds an image. Creates the thumbnail and adds the image entry to the Google Index.

Then you come along months later, perform the search Google presents the results from its index.

In the meantime the website owner that it crawled over previously has removed the image.