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must be asked on google forums

I wonder why the Google image search finds my thumbs (size on articles) but not the full images. When I search the unique file name from the URL and go for "more sizes" only the thumb is found.

As if the crawler doesn't follow the thumb link to the file page (where it could grab the link to the full image URL).

My robots.txt doesn't disallow the File ns.

Also the XML sitemap includes the File ns and Google Webmaster Tools throws no errors.

Nobody can help?

This is the same question asked again and again, but apparently nobody asks it to google support forums, which will be the right thing to do. Feel free to post back the response if there's something we have to do in MediaWiki about this :)

Quick test: It does find the originals of these

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claas_Xerion_3800.jpg >
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Netanyahu_and_Mubarak_checking_their_watches.jpg >