So I was checking out Shoemoney’s blog this morning, and he had a post about people using Adwords coupons. Something about the image in the post caught my eye. Then I remembered actually taking that picture of that exact coupon sitting on my desk! I went back in my archives, and sure enough here it is. I posted that over a year ago, when this blog had just started. Then I got curious. I doubted Shoemoney was digging around in my year old archives so I did a Google images search and there it was, right on the first row. The strange thing, it wasn’t even pulling the results from my blog, but some other guy’s blog named BrownBaron. So no, Shoemoney didn’t steal my images, probably not even the BrownBaron dude. I just find it really funny how some obscure picture I took of a coupon ends up floating all over the web a year later.









LOL, thats awesome. I think everyone uses google image search for their stock photos.
I’ll admit to using google images for stock photos on occasion.
Back in my early content publishing days I had a good method of ranking any image for any keyword on Google Images. The pictures would show up everywhere and get hot linked like crazy!
There is actually a very, very dirty technique that some companies have been using. By registering the copyright to an image, and then getting it ranked on Google Images (or in the specific cases I know of, buying the exclusive rights to the images that are already ranking) you can then go after everyone who copies the image for a few thousand dollars. “Fair use” is a lot thinner than people think.
Thats really interesting Andrew. I have heard some of the abuses of google images, but never that one…