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Re:Show HN: Free Company Logo API by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @01:38PM (#9807039)
This isn't trying to scrape the page and find something vaguely logo-like. Rather, it seems to be using iOS, OpenGraph and Twitter icons. In this case, the site has a strange OpenGraph image specified in its meta tags. If it produces a weird image it's because the site owner has specified an image which isn't their logo. It's not because the API picked a random image.

For this service, if it can find an image, it's at least an image the site owner wanted to be used to represent it.

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Re:Show HN: Free Company Logo API by VivaCascadia on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @02:02PM (#9807217)
Yeah, really odd choice for an Open Graph image. They specify that burger and soda image directly in their header.

<meta property="og:image" content="//nebula.wsimg.com/7cdaeb9fbb87f3450dc65108e6d6af87?AccessKeyId=6E4E9B5CC8D37F66F76C&disposition=0&alloworigin=1">

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Re:Show HN: Free Company Logo API by todd3834 on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @09:26PM (#9809495)
I wouldn't have thought that the open graph image is a logo. Seems like that wouldn't be a reliable source for logos
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Re:Show HN: Free Company Logo API by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @01:07PM (#9813419)
Fair point. It's at least something they've chosen to represent themselves, however.
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