Imagelogr: images without attribution

An image & picture search engine.. It's currently indexing in the region of 24,027,558,000 images - which is quite a fair number. The interface is very similar to both Bing and Google. Options include image size options, custom resolutions, image types (faces, clipart, drawing) and results per page. Now, there's a really big problem with this resource - it's not providing ANY location information. You can click on a link, download it (or do some basic rotation) without any idea, or indeed any way of finding out, where the image has come from.

Consequently, you don't know if you can use the image freely, if it's under CC attribution, fully copyrighted - nothing. This to me is little short of a disgrace, and for anyone who has any morals at it this search engine is rendered useless. I certainly found several of my images in their database, but there was no way that I could see of tracing them back to me. Some were CC (but with attribution), and others were all rights reserved.

All these people say is 'we try to index pretty much every picture and image currently available on the free internet'. What does 'free internet' mean? The implication is that these images are available free for anyone to use - clearly not the case.

If you need other reasons why you shouldn't use this search engine, it doesn't have close to the number of images that Bing or Google have. A few quick searches:
Abandoned Conference Centre: Bing 2,600, Google 296,000, Imagelogr 27
Welsh castle Bing 52,800, Google 1,100,000, Imagelogr 38,189
Confederate Bing 1,780,000, Google 2,850,000 Imagelogr 734,811

Not worth using in my opinion, either in terms of numbers, functionality or the fact that you can't use the information with any degree of certainty.

Comments

[Dudu]

as a very good and practical engine there is Photoree http://www.photoree.com

perfectly legal, with attribution, creative commons filters, and quick image collection creation

[Paul Hellyer]

My litmus test for all search engines is using the search term for Vác (a small town in Hungary north of Budapest on the Danube). Many can't seem to handle the "a acute" and read it as an "a", as Vac. Naturally this produces vastly different results. Imageglor finds nothing for "vác", but finds plenty of images when using "vac", including some of "vác". Confused? Precisely.

[Dudu]

plenty of Vác photos:
http://www.photoree.com/search?q=V%C3%A1c&l=-
:)

[Steve Bellizzi]

I did a couple of searches and found a few photos that watermarks blurred out

[Wil C. Fry]

Actually imagelogr.com isn't a search engine in the sense that the others are. Unlike Google or Yahoo, imagelogr does not provide links back to the web page where it originally found the photos.

For thousands of my photos, imagelogr simply downloaded them from my Flickr and re-hosted them on their own site, without attribution or permission.

I've sent them a Notice of Infringement.