Note | Nudity No sooner did I write about Andrej Pejic’s naked bosom presenting no problems for Google Images, then the universe delivered, as always happens to me.

One Google click away, arriving like a sensual torpedo from VSMagazine, destined for my eye was

Ellen von Unwerth’s 2010 A Naughty Fairytale for VSMagazine

How the hell did I miss this gem of a film, given my utter adoration and extensive writing on Ellen von Unwerth?

Because I was bogged down in Google Image disaster land, scrambling to save three years of very hard work from the confines of Google Safe Search only prison. How ironic that the problem came with my posting of Koray Birand’s ode to Louis Vuitton, featuring a very naked Missy Rayder and Beata Scotova and for Elle Turkey no less.

Nervous as heck but telling myself ‘this is Louis Vuitton for heavens’ sake’ and in the Muslim country of Turkey, I not only posted the editorial but advised people in three places of the website that it contained nudity. The crisis  took down my Google image traffic by 80% at a time when they were dominant as a referrer.

Why? Because Google Images only reads words and they can’t handle at all my wrap-around design scheme. Google Images search took the word Nude in the side column for the Koray Birand editorial and attached it to every image in the website. How brilliant is that?

Peonies, oysters, perfume bottles — everything got a Nude label slapped on it. Welcome to Google Image hell.