4 April 2013

Imgembed Launches Free Image Search, Aims to Reduce Online Content Theft

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In a bid to encourage fair online image use, Imgembed has launched the ‘beta’ version of its image search today.



The misuse of images is a common frustration among image creators, and content are commonly being used without the knowledge and permission of the owners.



With the new feature, bloggers can stop ‘stealing’ images from the World Wide Web, and as an ethical alternative for free images.



Compared to Creative Commons where users have to download/upload and add attribution manually, the image embeds offered by Imgembed come with auto-attribution with creators' names.







Images are free to use for up to a maximum of 10,000 impressions—for those of you that would like to use images without attribution, you may choose to pay by CPM (Cost per thousand impressions).



Rather than to prosecute deliberate image theft, the service aims to create a paradigm shift by "making it so easy to do it the right way, it gives users no incentive to steal images anymore."



Imgembed creates a fair environment by offering transparency in the usage of images—especially to image creators, by allowing them to track where their images are being used and set permissions individually.



Unlike most embeds which are mostly in Flash format, the image embeds are being served in JPEG format, which makes the attributed images friendly for sharing on social networks such as Pinterest and Facebook.



For more information on Imgembed, please click here or watch the video below: