Ditto.com’s Web site includes a massive search index with over six million entries. Each entry is a thumbnail image that has been acquired through the use of Ditto’s spider which crawls its way through media Web sites that collect and store photographs or other images. According to the company’s web sites,once the crawler does its work,”we then select, rank, weight, filter ,and rate pictures,illustrations,clipart,photographs,drawings and other image-related material;next we index the images from the web sites”. All of this is done without the permission of the artist or photographer who created the image.When a user initiates a query,he or she receives the list of reduced thumbnail pictures ranked and in order of relevance.When the user clicks on one of these retrieved thumbnail images,two windows appear on the user’s screen:The first is a stand-alone copy of a full-size image and the second contains the complete originating Web page where that image appeared.