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During the portion of his talk where he discussed image replacement and its impact on findability, he addressed the white elephant question that has likely occurred to most designers who have used image replacement over the past five years or so: what does Google think of CSS image replacement, anyway? But the part that surprised me is that he actually had an answer: Google’s okay with it, you won’t be penalized for using image replacement properly.

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