jd01 - 8:47 pm on Nov 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

Interesting... but right now your hot link protection allows only www.google.com / or google.com as a referrer for the images to display, not images.google.com, which is where the Google Image Search is delivered from.

Justin

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I would think about trying:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://((www¦images)\.)?google.com/.*$ [NC]

Make sure to change the broken bar ¦ to a bar, or you will get an error.
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