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Google Sees What You Hide in Images
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Published: Nov 25, 2007 - 04:35 pm
Story Found By: Ruud 1643 Days ago
Category: SEM
If a review requires disclosure and you want to avoid the Wrath of Google, maybe putting “sponsored review” in an image is so much smarter.

Or not...
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from qwerty 1643 Days ago #
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Aside from the magic of OCR, one should note that an image containing the words "sponsored review" really ought to have an alt attribute of "sponsored review."

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from Ruud 1643 Days ago #
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Yes... and the links in the sponsored review should be nofollow... Kinda defeats the purpose of hiding something in an image though :)

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from garyprice 1640 Days ago #
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On a related note, a wonderful web organizer, Evernote, allows you to take cameraphone pics or clip images from web sites and then search them using OCRBack in 2005, Chris wrote a very positive review of the service for SEW..

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from samantha85 1640 Days ago #
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That duplicate image detection idea is something cool.

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from neyne 1614 Days ago #
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if you are not going to disclose it and even try to hide it, why bother in the first place ?

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from AndyBeard 1614 Days ago #
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I live in Europe - I have to think about accessibility

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