Our search results were hijacked temporarily by a viagra purveyor from Australia. Fortunately, Casey caught the issue quickly and got the situation under control asap. It did, however, get me thinking about images that could be used to illustrate related concepts. Most images for ‘impotence’ involve unhappy looking men and conversely most images advertising viagra are of smiling older couples. A missed keywording opportunity perhaps…?

I also found that viagra is a valid search term on most stock photography sites. In the case of searches on Getty & istock, it disambiguates to ‘anti-impotence pill’ while when searching on other sites, such as Dreamstime, the keyword is enabled as is. We avoid trademarked terms when keywording, and most site guidelines prohibit their use, but it’s clear that enforcement is tricky. Having said that, there were only a few hundred results out of collections of millions of images so most sites are doing a good job on this front.