Why would image thumbnails not be showing in all search engines in all browsers?

Posted by Edward Tanguay on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Edward Tanguay
Published on 2010-05-13T20:03:17Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 20:14 UTC
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For over a week now, when I search for a word at Google, it correctly gives me some preview image thumbnails:

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But when I click on "images", it doesn't show me any thumbnails:

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The same thing happens at Bing.com, when I search Bing itself it gives me some thumbnails on the general search result page:

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But when I click on "images", it doesn't show me any thumbnails:

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The same thing happens at Yahoo:

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If I click on one of the broken thumbnails, it shows me the picture fine:

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Thumbnails at youtube also work fine:

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It seems each search engine is hanging on different URLs as shown above:

  • t1.gstatic.com
  • ts3.mm.bing.net
  • thm-a02.yimg.com

so it doesn't seem to be the problem of one specific URL not sending thumbnails, it is just a problem with search engine image thumbnails in general.

Also, this happens in every browser I try: Explorer, Firefox, Chrome.

What could be the problem? Is it my computer, some setting somewhere, my router, my Internet provider (T-Online, Germany)? Has anyone ever had this problem and solved it?

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