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Originally Posted by jaca
My question is, don't you think that this Google image search just makes it easier for people to steal your image(s)?
Jan
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This response is a bit late, but I actually became a member (now), to answer you.
This is a dilemma; If you upload pictures on the web, someone might steal them.
If you dont upload them, noone can steal them, but then also noone can see them.
eg. If you are scared that someone will steal your images, the sollution is not to remove them from the google listing, but it's to watermark them or not put them on the web at all.
You might also hide some things from "guests", by making a login system for your regular users.
If you make your website with a programming language, you can make a system that stores all your images in a database, then you make a script that makes a watermark on the picture and displays that temp. picture to the user.
This system will make some system load, but unless you have millions of of hits per hour, like I guess noone on this forum has, I dont think that extra system load will affect your server.
My system, I programmed so that the watermarked image is all that the users see, but I didnt replace the original image that my users upload.
eg. I keep the original image, make a watermark temp. image which is then destroyed when the session times-out.
You could also replace the original image with a watermark image and keep a backup of the original image (without watermark).
Programming languages, like PHP for example, have powerfull image-editing functions. You can put a transparent gif on-top of another image, careless if it's gif, jpg, etc.