Comments on: Crediting images on searchengines now without signup fee [updated]

By: Editor

Editor — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:00:07 +0000

Thank you for the clarification Suzanne

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:52:04 +0000

Fear not, registering images with PicScout ImageIRC™ is absolutely free. Anyone who registers and uploads images, http://clients.imageirc.picscout.com/registration.php, pays nothing for an image to be fingerprinted and credited forever. There is cost associated with the pay-per-click licensing connection model, which is an opt-in program, that establishes a direct connection to a licensing page. Everyone who registers is given 100 free credits upon sign up for “clicks” and 20 free credits per month thereafter. Once the free credits are used by ImageExchange users who are out their clicking away, the licensing connection isn’t available unless the image owner wants to pay for clicks and contracts separately to do so, BUT the image always appears with its credit. Hence, Every Image Gets Its Credit™. There are no hidden charges that suddenly kick in. The free credits are nice as anyone can see if there is value for them to consider the pay-per-click model for themselves, for some or all of their images. After all, if people are clicking and licensing, more of that is good. Evaluating the costs per click in the PicScout model against say the Google keywords model is a worthy exercise. One is very specific to your images and the other is based on terms under which your image may qualify. I think you’ll see that Google keywords average out to be considerably more expensive. Enjoy that free image fingerprinting and owner ID…no catch, and I wrote the fine print.

By: Editor

Editor — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:57:28 +0000

Thanks for the clarification Paul, that does ineed look like a fee per click. Perhaps someone from Picscout would like to comment on this.

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By: Paul Melcher

Paul Melcher — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:22:12 +0000

Not sure it’s free..According to their Terms : “Fees You shall effect payment of the fees by buying credit for Your Account via the PicScout website according to the Fee Terms listed there at the time of credit purchase. As further detailed in the Fee Terms, you shall be charged each time an ImageExchange™ user clicks on the “i” (or similarly named) icon that populates one of Your Images. The fee rate You shall be charged by PicScout (following Your purchase of credit, and to be deducted therefrom) shall be as posted on the PicScout Website. From time to time, PicScout may amend these rates, and may charge fees or bid on search results. Any such amendments shall be posted on the PicScout Website.” Sometimes it’s good to go beyond the press release.