In typical CogDog fashion Alan Levine takes an ordinary task and turns it into a deep dive into some aspect of online learning and design. In this case, he looks into where you can find reusable images online. Two things stand out: first, that there are numerous services that simply scrape and repost images from other sites; these sites are ad-supported or include links to for-pay services. The worst of these Levine (quite rightly) classifies as 'slimy'. The second thing that stands out is how these slimy sites can rank at the top of Google search results. "Google tilts the scale away from creators toward slimers," he writes.
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