The galleries are linked from my main web site, and it is highly public. Still nothing.
They may have specifically crawled sites known for images (like Smugmug) from which they cannot find your images. They may not know about your main site which would lead to your images.
They show 11 of mine. I'm not going to include the link to them again, as it will just increase their traffic even more.
EDIT: Only nine are mine. How they link the other two to my username is a mystery. Oh well. Odd "search site" it is. I wonder what they're really up to.
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"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
Now I feel like a complete failure...................not one of my images is worthy of theft......cry:cry
Sam
Sam, don't feel bad... If I was the type of person to do it, I would happily steal a number of your images!
On a more serious note, they've got a whole bunch of my images, most from flickr and most are super low res. Those that are of decent web viewing res, have my watermark (old one on flickr) on them. While I wish their image search linked back to my site properly, since the photos are low res or watermarked, I'm not overly worried that they're actaully making money off them
All the images that had been taken down in response to my DMCA notice are back up. However, now when I click on a thumbnail it links directly to the image in my NatureScapes portfolio or in the case of my SmugMug portfolio to my home page.
BTW, if you search on SmugMug you get 5,691,231 thumbnail results!
I'll amend what I said earlier. They appear to be an image search site, but they are not linking back to our actually gallery pages like they should.
Actually, John, at that photosimagen site, when I type in "pmbimages", I see my thumbnails and when I click on my thumbnails, it takes me right back to my Smugmug site's Home page (in the lower frame)! Clicking on my thumbnail in the upper frame doesn't "get" them anything larger though), but my URL is there next to it.
I'm getting a link-back as you'd originally said, to my Home page with the slide show.
I just found nine of my image on there. When I did a search a few days ago, none were on there. Now I'm part of the stolen club. And like others have said, if you click on an image, it goes to my home page.
~Kathy
Success Coach, Motivational Speaker, Professional Photographer
"Enriching Lives through Images and Inspiration" www.kathleendavenport.com
It's still up. In fact, I typed in the name of several photographer friends and also some more "well-known" photographers in the industry. They all have photos on there, too.
~Kathy
Success Coach, Motivational Speaker, Professional Photographer
"Enriching Lives through Images and Inspiration" www.kathleendavenport.com
If the site was suspended, it didn't remain suspended for very long. All of my images are still being shown in spite of my submission of the DMCA notice.
Kent "Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs."- Ansel Adams Web site
I don't have time right now to read all of the comments, but I posted similar thread about 5 a.m. this morning when I discovered my locked, passworded unlisted galleries being accessed. It's odd as I haven't really paid much attention to my smug lately, but another smug user asked me if I had any sales through here and I said no and they wondered why not since I am able to sell other places, then I find the 'baidu' and other links to my images and it's just disturbing that I pay good money but no protection here at all. I love my smugmug and doubt I'll ever leave. But I will just have to be more careful I guess and limit what I put online. I just thought my private galleries were private.
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EDIT: Only nine are mine. How they link the other two to my username is a mystery. Oh well. Odd "search site" it is. I wonder what they're really up to.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
http://www.knippixels.com
So much for that. I just found 8 of my images there.
http://www.knippixels.com
Sam, don't feel bad... If I was the type of person to do it, I would happily steal a number of your images!
On a more serious note, they've got a whole bunch of my images, most from flickr and most are super low res. Those that are of decent web viewing res, have my watermark (old one on flickr) on them. While I wish their image search linked back to my site properly, since the photos are low res or watermarked, I'm not overly worried that they're actaully making money off them
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BTW, if you search on SmugMug you get 5,691,231 thumbnail results!
Ken
KenK Photography - Lehigh Valley, PA
http://kenkphotography.smugmug.com
Actually, John, at that photosimagen site, when I type in "pmbimages", I see my thumbnails and when I click on my thumbnails, it takes me right back to my Smugmug site's Home page (in the lower frame)! Clicking on my thumbnail in the upper frame doesn't "get" them anything larger though), but my URL is there next to it.
I'm getting a link-back as you'd originally said, to my Home page with the slide show.
Film/TV Stills Photography
"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." ~ Henry J. Kaiser
Success Coach, Motivational Speaker, Professional Photographer
"Enriching Lives through Images and Inspiration"
www.kathleendavenport.com
Success Coach, Motivational Speaker, Professional Photographer
"Enriching Lives through Images and Inspiration"
www.kathleendavenport.com
What did Cinderella say when she left the photo shop? "One day my prints will come."
Kent
"Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs."- Ansel Adams
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