Originally Posted by jimiking

I thought it would be interesting to see what micros come up when you do a Google search for stock photography. As I'm in the UK I expect that my results would differ from those in other parts of the world. These results are just the micro stock agencies BTW. In order of how they were listed and only those that turned up on page one.

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Results for the phrase stock photography

Search Results
1. Istockphoto
2. Canstockphoto

Sponsored Links
1. Shutterstock
2. Crestock
3. Fotolia
4. Bigstockphoto

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Results for the phrase stock photos

Search Results
1. Istockphoto
2. Bigstockphoto

Sponsored Links
1. Shutterstock
2. Lucky Oliver
3. Istockphoto
4. Fotolia
5. Crestock

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Results for the phrase stock photo libraries

Search Results
None

Sponsored Links
1. Istockphoto
2. Shutterstock
3. Lucky Oliver
4. Crestock
5. Fotolia

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Results for the phrase stock photo library

Search Results
None

Sponsored Links
1. Istockphoto
2. Lucky Oliver
3. Shutterstock
4. Crestock

I'd be interested to see what comes up if you do the same search in the USA.

I must admit that I'm looking at Crestock in a new light based on those results. Also worthy of note that Stock.xchng featured quite a lot too. Which is a free image site that is part of Stockxpert. Search results bring up a bunch of freebies with some paid for alternatives from the latter.