Re: EXIF header searching

**"* P* L* <t*@spamfodder.com>**

> All photogs would like to know if photos can be optimized for search 
> engines.  Don't know of one yet but Stock Artist Alliance( 
> http://www.stockartistsalliance.org), where I am now a Board member, is 
> working on industry standards to be sure metadata is consistent across 
> various imaging and camera software programs.
> 
> What this means is any photo on the web can be tracked back to the 
> owner - if the owner bothers to embed the data.

I've been using the exiv2 library to add headers to my images for a few 
years now and will be using it for user-contributed images to the hort.net
image gallery.

I've been following the search guidelines from 

   http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/

but really haven't found any search engines that take advantage of it
yet.  Does anyone know if Google et al are making strides in this 
direction?

> there is a very cool EXIF reader here - http://regex.info/exif.cgi

Many browsers also have EXIF plugins.  I use Opera -- right-clicking on
an image will display all EXIF headers through its built-in functions 
too...

Thanks for the link to the SAA!

Chris
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