Hi Naomi
First off, this'd be a disaster from a traffic / exposure / usability perspective. Not a lot of point putting stuff on the web if you can't see it on the *wider web*, and a completely backward step...
Also - I'm making this up but assume it's true - if you wanted to do this, you'd presumably have to put an entry in robots.txt for the entire collection location / folder / equivalent: Google Images spiders and surfaces content based on the html/text *around* the image, not the image itself. So if you did exclude, you'd also exclude all spidering of *any* of the content in that folder (ie, likely to be your entire collections database).
Flies in the face of the web, IMO, but each to their own..
Mike
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Subject: robot.text and Google Images
Dear All
I wondered if anyone has embedded robot.text into their images in
order to block display of images on Google Images?
Best wishes and many thanks
Naomi
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