old_expat - 3:47 am on Jun 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

I put up a detailed post about this and it disappeared .. so I'll try to summarize ..

I have an older 'travel maps' site .. maps of a given region. On the home page is a map of a subject country. I drew the map using AI and several different source images with different features .. map has logo, 'all rights reserved' and URL.

For a year it was featured in Google serps as a thumbnail above the results .. got lots of traffic.

The image is still there, but it now redirects to a university .edu domain. Investigation shows that a webmaster took my map for a personal project. My logo is still showing.

So apparently, Google gives a duplicate content tie to the .edu over the .com. I wonder if it's the same for text content?

You may want to check your images that are / were getting good traffic.