tedster - 12:56 am on Oct 31, 2008 (gmt 0)

It occurs to me that OCR on other images of text may be in play, too - for example, sites that use images to create headlines in a display font. Automated OCR capability has been there for many years, but we've seen little evidence for any effects..

For example, some major sites put boilerplate disclaimers into an image to avoid indexing problems. I hope OCR doesn't complicate things.

I'm still not about to recommend images instead of text documents, but as a searcher it might give me access to information I've been missing.