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How to NOT detected by Google image search


I know Google Image Search is very powerful by their face recognition algorithm.

I wonder is there any way to process/change the images which Google cannot search or detect?

I tried to change the images (of some famous movies like Batman) to black&white, reduce the resolution or "print-screen" each scene from the movies but they didn't work. Google can find out all of them.


Solution

  • I assume that Google will act the same for text and image crawling. The easiest way should be to define a robots.txt for your site.

    This file can look like this:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /images/
    

    By setting this up, google will not index everything in and below /images. Besides google every other well-behaving search engine crawler will consider your robots.txt.

    See details about this file here.