Images / Thumbnails in AV listings

How to get the webpage thumbnail?

[pobeirne]

I see AV listings sometimes carry little images of the web site beside them. How does I go about getting them?
I asked AV and was told:

"Please be informed that at this time, we do not provide a method to add or remove images from our results page. We take images and put them on the results page at our discretion only."

[starec]

The answer is quite clear, isn't it? It is at their discretion.

[pobeirne]

Yes, of course, but on what basis do they exercise their discretion? Has anyone else in this forum had success in getting them to show an image and what arguments did you use?

[Napoleon]

<Has anyone else in this forum had success in getting them to show an image and what arguments did you use?>

I have a couple... I didn't use any arguments, they just picked them.

It suspect it is some sort of algorithmic formula, they look for a 'suitable' graphic (one which fits pre-defined criteria) every nth site or similar.

[jimmykav]

I agree thats it's an algo.
They show an image next to my home page and i didnt ask for it.
They look for images that do not appear to be buttons (eg small) or navbars (eg wide or tall)