Old Antique Toys: Google

Friday, October 14, 2016

Oh Where, Oh Where can my Photos Be?

Saturday, October 15, 2016
Cloudy with Sun
16 Celsius 61 Fahrenheit

Oh Where, Oh Where

Can my Photos Be?

Our Dog Buddy

For those who don't know, Blogger saves your photos . I think the photos used to be saved in Picasa. Then Google discontinued Picasa. The new place for saving Blogger photos is now called "Album Archive". I have no idea why Google did this but they did. Another thing if you don't already know, is that when you start a blog, you give permission to Google to use your photos (for free). In my case, Google uses my photos and those of the hundreds of people and companies who have helped me out. How do they use these photos? They place them on the Internet in their servers so that when someone wants to do a search for let's "Hubley Cast Iron Toys", my photos and those of other people will come up in the search results. The results will be Internet web addresses, and photos.

If that's not confusing enough, I can't find 2 years' worth of photos. I've posed a question on a Google forum to seek answers as to where these photos might be.

Anyway, as I mentioned,Google stores my photos in a place called "Album Archive".

Please do not copy without my permission

or the respective owners of the original photos.

Above:

When I go to my "Album Archive" here is what is see.

Originally, all of the original first 5 years of blogging, had my photos titled "Old Antique Toys" or "Antique Toys". These were stored in the older storage location called Picasa. From February 2015, my photos have been stored in the folder "Blogger Pictures". I haven't been here to look at my photos "en masse" (altogether) in about 4 years.

Above:

For the first several years, I took photos of the toys that I bought and sold on ebay. All the photos above are all mine.Then "the roof caved in". I was buying and reselling toys top write my blog. However, the "cave-in" happened about the 3rd-4th year. ebay made people use their "Global Shipping" policy which became expensive for shipping from the USA to Canada. They also started charging much more as a percentage of your sales. THe Canadian Dollar went much lower in value to the US Dollar, and the Canadian Government figured that it was losing "Trillions" from people not paying their fair share of taxes on the imported toys. All these factors were enough to stop me from buying and selling anymore. As well, I never really made anything on easy and probably lost money from the buying and selling!

Above:

The above rubber toy photo is an enlargement

of a smaller photo into previous page of photos.

I must have used Buddy's photo as my logo many times, hence the 12 images of Buddy.

By the way, Buddy is our pet poodle.

Still another enlargement from the page will the many small photos.

This is a screen-capture of a portion of my "Album Archive". the name major is a name that I use in conjunction with another word for my Hotmail e-mail address.

An enlarged view of the "Album Archive"

Unfortunately, the Album Archive does not identify the photos as to when I wrote the blog. So when I go to any of the folders above, all I will see is a simple date such as "January 2012". There might be 1000 photos, and I would have to cross-reference the name of my guest or company with the date of my blog. This is not very practical or efficient for me - to takes too much time. I do have 2 back-up hard drives loaded with these same photos. On the 2 hard drives, everything is identified by the date that I wrote the post. That's more efficient, as all I have to do is match my date with the date on any post on my blog. I'm sure, that somewhere in the world, there are numerous companies offering either free storage or storage at a cost for storing my photos.

Above:

2 photos from a blog

More Search Results

, this storage feature is great because you have almost all of your photos in 1 place. I'm still missing 2 years of photos somewhere "In the Cloud". However, it's simply not practical if I was to write a new blog and use, for example, only "fire trucks". There is no search engine to search, not is there a way to see all of your photos at once. For Google it's useful, as they have access to all of my photos in one place. From there, their computer engineers can add these photos to their search engine.

Google can do this because to use blogger, this is one of the clauses in you agreeing to do in return for using Blogger.

It's "somewhat" fair to me, and the people who have helped me out. Everyone gets free advertising, and Google gets to use our photos. However, there is no remuneration in the form of fees for using the photos.

In this case, for Google "The best things in life are free",for Google, and to myself and those who have helped me. Of course, I'm boasting about my website,and all of the fine photos

that I have had the pleasure to use.

Thanks for dropping by to visit,

and as always, have a great

opart of the day or night,

wherever you may be.

Stacey Bindman

Toysearcher@gmail.com

Searching for my Blog on Google

Saturday, October 15, 2016
Cloudy with Sun
16 Celsius 61 Fahrenheit

Searching for my Blog on Google

Our Dog Buddy

The next post after this post has to do with where you're photos are on Google Blogger and How they are used by Google. That post let me come up with this first post for Saturday, October 15, 2016. I use Google as a search engine because for myself, it is the best search engine on the Internet. There used to be a lot of search engines, but sadly, many have closed down. Google just was too much competition for them. Personally, I don't like a monopoly or a company that is just too big, but Google works well and that's where it is.

This post has to do with how you'd find me on the Internet, and how Google uses my photos and those of the 100's of individuals and companies who have helped me out with my blog.

Basically, any search that you do with Google results in Google offering you 2 options.

One option is titled "all" and that results in website "hits" or results of the search. The other search result is for photos.

Above:

A search for "Hubley Cast Iron Toys"

The Result

In the "All" result, there are no results for my blog. However for the

images for "Hubley Cast Iron Toys", the Hubley orange racer is my photo,

and that will get you to my website. The reason that i'n not first is that the the

search I did can be very commercially valuable to Google in order to earn some money. Every hit that a paid Google customer gets to his/her website, earns Google money. Multiply that by a 100,000,000-2,000,000,000 "hits" per day , and you get to see the kind of revenue Google gets.

I'm just guessing, since I don't know how many hits Google gets.

Also, my blog is not commercial in nature. In other words I don't make any money from it. I could hire a web designer to make my blog more efficient and "professionally-managed", then use Google Ads" or whatever Google calls their revenue service, and I would definitely have my blog name appear. However,it would be lower down in the ranking compared to ebay which is second. Even though I did hit the 400,00 page view milestone last week, I would not make much money from Google. NOt everyone would redirect themselves to the website of the advertisers, and each "hit" would give me, if I'm lucky a cent (penny).

In the images result, I have 3 photos showing. They are the ones with the *.

And if you were to scroll down the whole search result, there would be more of my photos.

The above Hubley toy is an enlargement from a Skinner Auction photo. If you click on the photo now, you will be redirected to my blog.

Here is the post for Skinner Auctioneers & Appraisers.

This is a screen-capture of a diptych. A diptych is a composite photo

made up of 2 photos placed together.

I changed the search to "Old Antique Toys", and I had no results for my website. I was most-likely o m the second page of the search results. Notice however, that ebay has the top 4 search results, while the remaining 3 results are also selling toys.

The only result for my photos is the second row first photo,

and the third row fourth photo from the left.

Finally, I do get a search result for "all". I am the second listing.

The first site listed is one that sells toys, and might use Google , so that this site gets more priority on the search result list.

I was more fortunate in the results for photos. I counted 19 of my photos,

and of course those of the people who have helped me out.

The name "Nathan Forman" is someone who helped me out.

This search was great, but few people would ever use

all of the words "old antique toys blog".

Some of my own photos above haven't the copyright notice. When I started to ask people and companies for permission to use their photos and toy descriptions, I started to include a copyright notice at the bottom of the photos.

Unfortunately, that has not stopped people and companies from using my own photos, and occasionally other people's photos. One of the companies that uses photos from the Internet is Pinterest. The people who use Pinterest take photos off the Internet without permission. The good news is that Pinterest "asks" people to tell where they took the photos from and most respect that and do add the website address or the company name.

So that's it for now. If you've noticed lately, I have returned to blogging at a frantic pace. That was purposely done to attract more people to read my blog, so that I could reach the 400,000 milestone. The tactic worked a bit to elevate the page views, but not to the level that I would have expected.

That's life!

So thank you everybody for dropping ny,

and have a great part of the day

or night, wherever you may be.

Stacey Bindman

toysearcher@gmail.com