Comment by toomuchtodo
8 years ago
Is that farfetched? Does Google not have the engineering resources to detect the image canonical source (a la Tin Eye) and point to that instead?
I find that hard to believe considering the resources they’ve put into Content ID at YouTube for copyright infringement identification and takedowns.
The website the image was stripped from isn't even indexed.
But well put: If google wants to pretend it is quality material because it sits on a giant content farm they should indeed credit the original source for it. If they cant find it it should not be listed.
If it was text the entire content farm would be erased from the index indefinitely.