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Ideas to stop Google from taking your images?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2003
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is there a way of stopping Google from taking copyright protected images from your own website and rebroadcasting them on their website without having to use flash?
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston, TX
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Rebroadcasting? You mean offering thumbnails in their Google Image Search?
Read up on robots.txt.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Vancouver
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You mean...
robot.txt
Sorry, I couldn't resist... :-)
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2005
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as others have said, Google isn't taking the images, it's simply linking to them.
The robots.txt file will work for most... but you need to ask yourself... should you be placing images on your site that you don't want others to be able to view?
I don't condone stealing images, but at the same time, don't be surprised if you don't protect yourself and people do...
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Mac Enthusiast
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Amazing. I just realized google is actually indexing the robots.txt file.
The 4:th result in a google search for robots.txt is:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt
So whitehouse, let's see what it is that you don't want us to see...
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Moderator  Join Date: Jun 2000
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Toronto, ON
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Originally Posted by NYCFarmboy
is there a way of stopping Google from taking copyright protected images from your own website and rebroadcasting them on their website without having to use flash?
Yeah, don't put them on your web site! 
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The Lord said 'Peter, I can see your house from here.'
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2004
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you have too much time if your trying to spend it keeping google from indexing yoru images. Prevent the image indexing on google will also result in google devalue-ing your entire domain name. They do this on purpose.
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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Originally Posted by inkhead
you have too much time if your trying to spend it keeping google from indexing yoru images. Prevent the image indexing on google will also result in google devalue-ing your entire domain name. They do this on purpose.
They are getting big headed these days.
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