What is so special about this?

[Josh66]

I posted this in one of the theme threads before I went to bed last night, and it got nearly 300 views on Flickr by the time I got up this morning... That's a lot for me - that makes it my 'most viewed picture' - and that happened in just a few hours... I first assumed that somebody had put it on their website or something (but still linking it to my Flickr page, or else I wouldn't see the views - gotta love Flickr stats), but that doesn't really make sense.

The stats just say the views came from an 'unknown source'.

It's kinda crazy... I mean, it's just my cat, lol. I have better pictures of her in my photostream...

Anyway, here it is:


05041120 by J E, on Flickr

 

[mishele]

You made explore prolly..........lol

 

[Josh66]

But wouldn't those views show as coming from Flickr?

 

[mishele]

You made explore prolly..........lol

Nope, you're not showing up on explore.

 

[mishele]

AAhhhh.....someones using your photo....lol Do you have a pro account?

 

[480sparky]

It's a bot. Probably from the Ukraine, China, or Indonesia. I get 'em all the time on my website. They're hackers using a bot to search for chinks in your server's armor so they can plant links to some useless garbage they're getting paid to plug.

 

[Josh66]

I do.

I searched it on Tineye, and zero results - even though it has been posted here.

someones using your photo

That was the first thing I thought - but I couldn't find out where it was being used.

 

[mishele]

Click on "You"
Then "Popular"
Then "Flickr Stats"
Go to the very bottom of the page it shows under " Domain"
It might show you there where your picture is link to.

 

[Josh66]

It's a bot. Probably from the Ukraine, China, or Indonesia. I get 'em all the time on my website. They're hackers using a bot to search for chinks in your server's armor so they can plant links to some useless garbage they're getting paid to plug.

That's probably it - though I have seen no signs of spam or anything yet...

 

[AUG19]

Flickr and cats..what can we say?! Only time I had an image on explore was with ...a cat. Nice shot btw.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Go to bighugelabs (I think) and get the app that shows what of yours makes it to explore, cuz that's what I bet it is too.

 

[mishele]

I looked him up on that site and I couldn't find him.
http://bighugelabs.com/scout.php

 

[480sparky]

That's probably it - though I have seen no signs of spam or anything yet...

That means they didn't succeed in placing their links into what the bot has no clue is an image.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Ok then.

 

[Josh66]

Workspace 1_001 by J E, on Flickr

Those are all from that one picture. It just shows as 'unknown'...