Why does google GET images?

why not just HEAD them to see that the file exists?

[bcc1234]

Do they keep the images cached somewhere?

How long does it take for the images to get indexed?

[edited by: bcc1234 at 12:40 am (utc) on Dec. 11, 2002]

[deejay]

I haven't noticed Google getting my images -

although they obviously did at some stage when the site was with my old host, as my images are included in their image search. :(

oh, as to whether they cache them - they must do, because my images don't show hits on my logs when I search for them on Google.

[edited by: deejay at 12:42 am (utc) on Dec. 11, 2002]

[bcc1234]

Googlebot does up to 7 hits per second for images.
Already got a few thousand and does not seem to stop.

[deejay]

yikes.. that could get pretty heavy pretty quick.

What IP is the bot using?

[bcc1234]

64.68.86.

[Visit Thailand]

Is there anyway to stop g/bot from caching the pics but still letting her in to get the url?

[deejay]

[google.com...]

The link is to Google's FAQ's. If you don't want your pictures indexed, you could ban googlebot from your images directory if you have one, or you could ban it from grabbing *.gif or *.jpg.

Interesting - i didn't know you could specify a file type rather than an area.

[jdMorgan]

Just be advised that these extensions to the robots.txt protocol are Google-specific. Few (if any) other robots support wild-card file names or the Allow directive. If you use them, put these Google-specific directives into a Google-only User-agent section of robots.txt, and include a separate section for other 'bots.

Jim

[zechariah]

From this forum's robots.txt there is,

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

It would most likely make google not get your images?
I hope this helps.