Well apparently Google’s Nerd Patrol is reading FR and are afraid of being found out, because the image search is now returning results.
It took about three weeks before they started re-appearing. The news had spread from here around the web on websites and blogs reporting on the BC issues and also BO's dishonesty.
They still aren't all completely back and some that were links to legitimate BC images that used non-representative thumbnails still have the wrong thumbnail.