The Joys of the Internet 02/21/2011
So my daughter is cruising on the internet and she ends up in Google Images and decides to type in: one sixth scale house. She wants to see if any pictures from my website turn up. Sure enough, she spots a picture of mine. This is the first one either of us has found, so she gets all excited and tells me, and I get all excited. Then she clicks on the picture and instead of my website, it takes us to someplace completely different. I realize that someone has stolen my picture!! You hear about this sort of thing, but it was the first time it has happened to me. I was miffed to say the least. I was hoping that they at least gave me credit somewhere, or a link, or something. The website was a rather odd one. It appeared to be a search thing of some kind, It said: Yahoo search results for one sixth, but was not a Yahoo address. It had none of the things one usually looks for- Home, links, search, contact us. Nothing. Just a lot of pictures of one sixth scale things pulled from different websites, that had no links to anywhere else. I posted about this on the doll boards, asking for advice. I got some responses that were helpful. I found out that the whoever owned that site owned a whole lot more sites, many of which are questionable. One person emailed me to say that when she tried clicking on things on the site, it tried to grab her files and she had to do a hard reboot to get rid of it. So now I'm wondering if it a site some hacker set up to infect computers with spyware or a virus. Anyway, now my picture is the very first one you see in Google Images if you type in: one sixth scale house- just as I'd always hoped! But if you click on it, you won't end up here. You'll end up somewhere odd and maybe dangerous for your computer CommentsLeave a Reply | AuthorMy name is Nina. ArchivesMay 2011 CategoriesAll |
