Now that the page has been visited twice by Google, after the image was removed, we can likely assume that there is some sort of disconnect between when a page has stopped using an image and when Google refreshes the Images database to reflect the change.

I’m just trying to determine how long this phenomenon takes to correct it’s self.

About image hot-link spam…

So… why not display the page where the image is originating from versus the page that just has an image hot-linked.

It stands to reason that the Harvard.edu page should be more relevant and more deserving of being listed in the results and not the parked domain.

Or… Why is the parked domain that was only hot-linking to this image more relevant than the original page from Harvard? How does sending people to the parked domain versus the Harvard website create a better user experience?

I thought it might have been some sort of cloaking but that’s a much simpler explanation.

(It was cached on Jun 30, 2007. )

If someone is thinking that more nefarious stuff is going on, I’d restate the problem in simpler words for my puny brain. :) Something like, “This image exists on domain A, but domain B is trying to get credit for the image and show up instead.”

But where did they originally find the images?
Google image search, perhaps?

ROTFLMAO!!!