Posts Tagged “julie moult”

So, for those of you new to Julie Moult’s favourite site, there’s links to my more popular images in the left hand column below my T-Shirts spam and a wallpapers page, see the link up there on the top right of the page.
And here’s a rough animation with some exquisitely disturbing music showing a little of what I’ve been up to over the past couple of years.(regulars, scroll down to the next post) :

Music by the late, great Klaus Nomi.

Having been stitched up again by the Daily Mail, I had a look at when and where my image was being posted.
Hmmm..
The same article by Julie Moult appears on Google News three times with 2 different headlines in the Mail :
“Blears falls prey to ‘Google Bomb’ Attack Of The 50-inch Woman”
Mail on Sunday, UK – 22 Aug 2008
“Blears and Harman victim of ‘Google bombing’ with Attack of the …”
Daily Mail, UK – 22 Aug 2008
(twice if you check for duplicates.)
“Blears falls prey to ‘Google Bomb’ Attack Of The 50-inch Woman”
Daily Mail, UK – 22 Aug 2008

When Associated ripped my Pete Doherty/Kate Moss image, the same story ran on :
ThisisLondon.co.uk
MailonSunday.co.uk
and
DailyMail.co.uk

According to the Daily Mail, Google Bombing is where cyber pranksters create duplicate sites linking to the same webpage to make it seem more popular.

Well, The Daily Mail is getting round my IP address ban and have nicked my Hazel Blears image.
Blears falls prey to ‘Google Bomb’ Attack Of The 50-inch Woman – Here
A screen capture of the current front page of The Daily Mail’s website :

This is despite my new notice (on the left) about image use (it even mentions The Daily Mail) and despite Associated Newspapers acknowledging having been warned about image use before.
(Associated agreed to circulate my details around relevant departments so none of their titles would use my pictures.)
From my site’s logs it seems that Associated Newspapers made many attempts to access the relevant post on my site (and image server) which were all denied but the author could have been working from home or phoned a friend.
Towards the end of the article, the truth comes out about the Google bombing accusation :
“Google yesterday denied the politicians had been subjected to Google Bombing, saying the picture’s ranking was due to several factors including popularity.”
Associated Newspapers stole my Kate Moss/Pete Doherty image earlier this year (here) when the article was actually about Russell Young’s prints of my image.
I’ve deleted all copies/posts of that one from my servers for other reasons, including the fact that I was getting way too many visits because of the popularity of the picture in Google images.
Update :
It seems The Daily Telegraph has run a very similar story here and, of course, stolen the image.
Both images have been cropped to delete my tag on the original image.