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I am a lose the positions in Google Image Search?
Google can acknowledge my pages, as not containing unique content?
Unfortunately this means that people who browse with referrer logging turned off on their browser will still be able to see the hotlinked images on the other site, but there's not much you can do about that.
Google doesn't hotlink your images. Google takes them and stores them on its own server. By enabling hot linkinging protection (generally through a .htaccess file) you can prevent people from hotlinking your images and Google still will be able to grab your photos for Google Image search.
Huh? The link for the full-size image is to the hosting page.
You can restrict access based on referer as well as allowing googlebot specifically. As for the people that browse with referer off.. sucks to be them. It's not the default in any browser I've seen. You can replace the hotlinked image with an image explaining what they need to do, where the original site is, etc. If you only are worried about the particular site that is hotlinking you now, check for their referer and show a new image (be creative!) to visitors on their page.
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Google takes them and stores them on its own server.
Every image in Google image search is stored on Google's servers?
Come on.
Every image in Google image search is stored on Google's servers?
Yes, this is true. It still shows old images of mine I removed from my site months ago.
Every image in Google Image Search is stored at Google. This is a good thing for sites with lots of images - otherwise Google would probably be the biggest hotlinker of them all.
The link to the larger image points to the site the image came from - and is actually displayed by the site from where the image came from too (Google does frame the page). As such, Google is not "hotlinking", which is showing someone elses image on your own domain.
Jim
Every image in Google Image Search is stored at Google. This is a good thing for sites with lots of images - otherwise Google would probably be the biggest hotlinker of them all.
Every image or thumbnails of every image?
If every image is stored on Google's servers, wouldn't this be copyright infringement? If every image is stored on Google's servers, why does the link to the image take me to the hosting page? IF every image is stored on Google's servers, why would a thumbnail ever result in a dead link?
And on the other topic, only thumbnails of the images are stored in Google, so far as I can see.
