Getty Site - Site Down as Stock Is Down?

I happened to be headed to the Getty Images site at 8:14pm EST tonight, and found this: (click the graphic to see the screen grab full size (two screens long):

All the sites - United Kingdom - gettyimages.co.uk; Deutschland - gettyimages.de; España - web gettyimages.es; France - gettyimages.fr; Italia -gettyimages.it; Japan - gettyimages.co.jp; and, Brasil - gettyimages.pt, were listed, and the message included in their respective language:

The new gettyimages.com is temporarily unavailable as we are updating the site. Please visit us again -- we will be back online soon.

In the meantime, feel free to visit the previous version of our Editorial or Creative sites.

Thank you for your patience.

(Continued after the Jump)

Hmmm, it seems like a pretty bad time to have dumped the lead on your website, don't you think? I think I made that point in a previous post on the same subject. A read of the links that you are directed to are:

• {a href="http://legacyeditorial.gettyimages.com/ms_gins/source/home/home.aspx?pg=1"}Editorial{/a}
• {a href="http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/homecreative.aspx?country=usa"}Creative{/a}

(Note, the braces were used instead of the html formatting characters for formatting purposes here).

So, Getty is sending people to the "legacyeditorial" site? What gives? Note the blue "?" box -- that code is supposed to call:

• {img src="/spacer.gif" border="0" height="33" width="20" alt=""}

Heck, they can't even get a 'spacer.gif" graphic right! Really, what gives?

So, why was I headed to the Getty site? To look for the date of their next quarterly report. I thought it interesting to note that the last time I commented on their stock price, they were at $34.59, and it closed today at....drumroll please.....$31.13, or $3.46 down, exactly 20% down from 8/4, and today is....another drumroll.....8/24, or, 20 days. That's 20% down in 20 days, and that's not even 20 trading days! Heck, I guess I don't have to wait until the next quarterly report, at this rate, they'll be a penny-stock before you know it. Oh, wait, they already have "penny-stock" covered, it's called iStockphoto, with just pennies on the dollar going to the creative talent behind the images they proffer.

Shorters, start your engines!

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Update: When I checked back at 9:06, the site was back up.

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