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If you create subdirectories within your images directory, this should infact improve your performance. The reason for this is that the Zen code checks to see if product images exist, which involves the PHP code iterating through image file within a directory. If there are 2000 images in the directory, this will take longer than if it goes to a specific category directory and then looks through 20 images.
As for the Google images probloem, you may want to adjust the code in includes/functions/general.php so that the image handler code is only employed when the current user is NOT a spider. Whether or not the user is a spider is already stored in a session variable, and if it is true, then you could simply return the actual image, rather than the cached version. Obviously the new Google search results take site speed into consideration, so it's a choice between site speed results, and getting your original image in the search results.
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