Are duplicate images a sign of low quality?

[AlanMosley]

I look after a lot of small businesses that can not afford to get cutom made images for their sites, this made me think, If i was a search engine and saw a site with duplicate images, would i think that this site is of low quality?

It is my guess that they would.

[AWCthreads]

Perhaps. How deep can Google read into an image properties beyond the alt tag?

[AlanMosley]

The can match imes even if resized, you can see this when you search for images, you get to find other sizes of rthe same image

[AWCthreads]

Yes. If the image is tagged with different keywords, how is Google going to know they are the same image?

Keep the file name different and alt different as well.

[AlanMosley]

Easy, every image gives the same code, even if you resize it its just a caculation to its new code.

See thes bing results

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Hank+williams&cbir=ms&mid=EDD725327159E9457AD7DC988074CDE7A4E957D3&vw=1e9ab%202f018%204b257%20e8aef%200b41c%20ab268%203ae27%2049e5b%2090b5d%20f32da%20c7a40%2032ff6%209c50c%2069cb4%20f279d%2018901%208f138%20aca64%208d2ba%2031c2c%20cd2e34c5487f1455fd75c59a9c95d809f78920f736ac79ae52d8160d9884372be31a67058e7c9279cb0458633c9154f8d2e5&rxc=15&rxc=15

[KeriMorgret]

Google can tell they're the same image, and even lets you use this as a search. Go to images.google.com and click on the little image icon right by the search. Instead of putting in words describing the image, you can upload an image or point to an image URL and Google will tell you if it finds that image (or a very similar image) on any other pages. That's also a great way to find out if other sites are using your images. I found two other sites using an image from my site, for example. Here's the search results http://bit.ly/MtrXbs