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[Ben Phillips]

> not spiders.  spiders follow links and index text.  even
> google, who offer an image search don't need to make image
> requests to allow their cataloging and searching.  they're
> simply indexing the names of the images they find in the html
> content.  there's simply no point in actually retrieving the
> image itself.  there's nothing usable in the binary content
> of the image.

but wouldn't they make a request to check the image exists? even if they
just get the name/filename of the image from the page the image is
embedded in, i still think they would have to access the image file
itself. i never see any dead images in the google image search.

benji
inchima.com