Asian search competitor Baidu is funny. When you use their image search engine and click on a thumbnail, they"ll open a new page on their server which displays the large version of the image, with an additional link to the source page... an interesting interpretation of "fair use." (There"s some sort of copyright notice on the page"s footer, though automatic translation programs fail to get the precise point across... part of it sounds like "This picture may be copyrighted.")
Google also republishes full pages as part of their Google Cache system, or their mobile proxy, by the way. They only show thumbnails of images in their image search though.
On a side-note, Chinese Baidu sometimes finds more results than Google, f ...
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