Image Credits

There is something that bothers me (and many others I'd imagine) which I've noticed happening across the Internet more and more. On fansites, on blogs, on Tumblr, on You Tube, all over the place. Why does everyone keep crediting images to Google?! Google doesn't own the images, it's only a search engine. That's like crediting Netflix for a movie instead of the director. 

If the image is official art, credit whatever person or company holds the copyright. If the image is fanart, ask the artist for permission to use it, then credit the artist and credit whatever person or company holds the copyright. Optionally, you can credit Google for helping you find the image, but not for the image itself. That is fair use, using things without credits is not fair at all, and crediting a search engine instead of the author is unfair, lazy and just plain stupid.