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Rhonda Falls

9 Years Ago

How Does Something Like This Happen???? One Of

I occasionally do a random search of myself on different search engines. Today I went to Bing and found one of my images attached to another artists website. I am attaching the link. Can someone please explain. I emailed him and asked him if he was aware that this was my image connecting to his site. I am waiting on an answer from him.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=artistwebsites&cbir=ms&rxc=12&sbirxc=30&vw=67b5a+0548e+170fe+c0e6a+03332+0a0a5+17458+675fa+0b31b+67b08+1fb32+6711b+49539+0531d+767e9+13c3d+0b77a+12f3e+7a34b+ea9be+14eb3320a4f36f7169a7d22a3b4dd2c101c71c330040e149515c021e6fd3e3e58c1596e26f0667123269d1230a81880f1800&sbivw=&sbihc=&sbift=&mid=108B45F383F1ABBED5EDB607ED5D077DEFCE2CB8&simid=608007158442036709&sbifsz=&sbifnm=&thw=0&thh=0&FORM=IRSBIM

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Jeffrey Campbell

9 Years Ago

Rhonda,

I have checked all images on the artist's site and I do not see your image. The associate link forwards to FAA blogs. Did you by chance ever have that image as your avatar and, at that time did you ever blog on FAA? I have seen this anomaly in the past, but not too tech savvy to understand why it happens.

I do not feel your artwork has been infringed upon in any way.


 

Rhonda Falls

9 Years Ago

No the image is not on the artist site. However when I clicked on the image in the Bing search that is how I found the link attached to his site. It my be a technical error. I just would like to know how something like that happens. It may not be intended to be infringement at all. However, like most creative people when I go to click on an image that I know I have created, my expectation is that it will lead back to my website, blog ect. or something connected to me not someone I have know idea who he is.

 

Andee Design

9 Years Ago

When I did a search I saw an another artist name on on of my image thumbnail that

showed up on Google. It was not on his site. Some kind of Google error in that case.

 

Jeffrey Campbell

9 Years Ago

Rhonda,

Hopefully someone knowledgeable with search engines can provide a more technical explanation as to why this happens. This is not the first time someone has mentioned this anomaly, and I do not have the foggiest notion why is does.

I'm sorry :-)

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

usually it happens when someone else comments on your work. or you place your image in a contest or such, and the search mixes up that image with another name. he may have also used that image and it was associated to him. it's hard to tell.

---Mike Savad

 

Rhonda Falls

9 Years Ago

@Jeffrey-No need to apologize. I am just new at a lot of things and want to make sure I know what could go wrong and how to fix it if I can. I am sure with all the images on the web I am not the only one it has ever happened to. It was my avatar when I very first started on FAA.

 

Jeffrey Campbell

9 Years Ago

"It was my avatar when I very first started on FAA."

And I noticed you blog, too, Rhonda. For some reason the search engines may have picked up the blog posting from FAA with your avatar attached and, for some strange reason associated under the artists name. Weird!

 

Abbie Shores

9 Years Ago

This is a pain in the bottom thing that Google and other search engines do... They mix and match.

Your art is not on their page and will link to you for sales...

 

FireFlux Studios

9 Years Ago

This is because of the with the way the AW sites are done.

A lot of what is on the main FAA site, is also linked through everyones AW pages (and pixels.com and all the other faa sites)

So, for instance you can read the forums through any of the users AW site, like this:

http://firefluxstudios.artistwebsites.com/showmessages.php?messageid=1972592

So, if you post things on FAA in the community pages like the forums and blogs, you can easily end up in Google or any other search engine, under other peoples AW sites URL.

You're not actually on their AW site, its just because they have picked up content through the AW pages, and the common links.

Probably would help if FAA blocked the community pages through AW sites, or maybe even if they used the 'canonical' meta tags to tell the search engines its duplicate content.

HTHs,

Rob.

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