Using Viewpoint's Image Search
Adult Content Filter
Image Copyrights
Removing Images from Viewpoint Search

Using Viewpoint's Image Search
A standard image search may be executed at ViewpointSearch.com by clicking on the Images tab and then entering a query into the search field. Image results may be filtered by size and coloration by selecting one of the hyperlinked options located above the image results on the image results page.

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Adult Content Filter
You may filter out explicit content from Image Search results by turning on the Safe Search filter, available on the Advanced Image Search page. To permanently activate or de-activate this setting, visit Viewpoint Search Preferences.

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Image Copyrights
Some images in Viewpoint's image results may be subject to copyright. Because image results are sourced from millions of sites, Viewpoint cannot grant searchers the right to use these images in any way except to view them on the Web. Please contact the site owner for copyright information and usage permission.

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Removing Images from Viewpoint Search
Viewpoint Image Search sources images from Yahoo. To block Yahoo's Media Crawler from indexing copyrighted photos, add the following two lines to your site's robots.txt file and allow up to 4 weeks for removal.

User-agent: Yahoo-MMCrawler
Disallow: /

Additional information is available here:
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion-admin.html
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/image/image-08.html

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