Google Image credits hotlinked images to displaying site

[surfgatinho]

Whilst trawling Google images to find who's been using my images I was more than a little surprised to see one of my photos as no 1 but on a site I wasn't familiar with.

On closer inspection I found the 300px image was actually hotlinked to an 800px version on my site.

Seems a bit odd that Google credits the displaying page rather than the host site

[tedster]

This has been going on for a long time. In fact, someone hot-linking to your images from a site that the adult filter catches can cause all kinds of adult filtering problems for the rest of your site's images, too.

It's relatively common for a website to intentionally serve images from another server - a different IP address or even a completely different domain name. So I can appreciate the challenge that any search engine faces here. But the downside for Image Search can be mighty frustrating.