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I wish an image service existed that did some image recognition on the picture and provided you with relevant, but subtle 'Learn more about this thing' links.

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Oh yes. I run a image hosting service and adsense cant serve any relevant ads because the page hardly contains any text. The only text they identify is 'image hosting' and start serving ads to competitors T_T. My service has more information about user interest though based on topics and other user interactions etc but there is no way to forward these hints to adsense :(

Any tips on ad providers that support more explicit choice of topic per page load?

Or even links sending you to the original source of the image (comics especially)

Hey, yes! If reverse image search is possible now, it should be easy to automatically give credit to original creators, connect them with audiences and bypass blogspam!

How would you determine which reverse image search result is the original content creator? Just curious.

Finding the oldest image would probably work for most cases, as long as you found every instance of the image on the internet.

It might work ok for some of the larger comics/image producers.

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