Do search bots find images with base element?

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I'm working on the next version of my site which makes use the the base element. It's simplified a lot of things though I'm concerned using it may confuse search robots attempting to index images on my site.

For example my base might be...

<base href="http://www.example.com/" />

The image may be on a url like...

http://www.example.com/example1/004/index.php

While the image source on that url would be...

<img alt="" src="example1/004/image.gif" />

Do Ask, Google, MSN, and Yahoo at least correctly find the images when using this method? I know I could use full urls for the source though it would be a pain as I'm improving my file system and some of the file names are different live then locally.

- John

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We had a recent Home Page Discussion on just this topic back on 2007 August 3, Friday. It turned out to be a really informative one too. ;)

The <base> element and how to use it effectively
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<added> Oh wait, I see you came in at the end of the topic?