does googlebot download images?

Discussion in 'Google' started by disgust, Jul 24, 2004.

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    I'm just curious, because there's really two ways it could be looked at...

    1) images are almost never used (minus the google images search- but that's a different case entirely). even on the cached page, it still tries to get the images from the actual site. the images aren't needed in most cases, so downloading them would just be a waste of time (and bandwidth) for the bot...

    however

    2) by downloading the images, it could look for abuse (ie transparant gifs with hyperlinks)

    so I'm just wondering, does google request image files normally?
     
    disgust, Jul 24, 2004 IP
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #2
    THey do for the image search, but that's really the only time. And it's so rare is silly... images are usually like a year out of date.
     
    digitalpoint, Jul 24, 2004 IP
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    how exactly do they stop invisible 1x1 pixel gifs that are linked from not passing PR, then?
     
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    Generally they don't right now...
     
    digitalpoint, Jul 25, 2004 IP