Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google image search'

There are two threads at Google Web Search Help where there are two search suggestions that Google has listened to as a possible addition to Google's advanced search. The first thread talks about how some searchers want a NEAR operator...

Posted on November 5, 2009 8:07 AM

It has been just about two days since Google announced they have graduated the find similar images features from labs to the main Google Image Search. But even now, I do not see it. I see it on similar-images.googlelabs.com but...

Posted on October 29, 2009 8:17 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that Google Image Search has done an update to their index. One of the members that seems to always be on top of these images updates, zeus, has said that this update is worse off from...

Posted on September 29, 2009 9:43 AM

A couple days ago, many users started complaining that Google Images's next button didn't work. It basically showed the searchers the first page results, even though they clicked on the next page button. There were literally dozens of complaints about...

Posted on August 6, 2009 8:26 AM

Image search has its challenges, but yet, it is a powerful beast on its own. For as long as there has been image search, the issues of the search engine showing the original image, as opposed to those who hotlink...

Posted on August 3, 2009 8:50 AM

A Google Web Search Help thread reports some users seeing Google Image Search adding a left bar with added search options. Google Operating System posted screen shots of this in action, so I thought I share them here. All the...

Posted on July 31, 2009 9:01 AM

Whenever there is an image search change at any search engine, Zeus, a WebmasterWorld member, knows about it. He posted a thread at WebmasterWorld noting that he has seen a change to the moderate filter used by Google Image search....

Posted on July 13, 2009 8:39 AM

Last week Google added a creative commons drop down filter to Google Image Search. The filter looks like this: Google said: This feature allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like...

Posted on July 13, 2009 8:14 AM

When Bing first launched, it received a lot of hype around the amount of porn it found. Soon after, Microsoft added additional measures to help filter out the porn and adult content. Now, it seems like Google has changes Google...

Posted on July 6, 2009 8:44 AM

Some times I have to point out the most ridiculous threads in the forums. This morning I spotted a thread at Google Web Search Help where a person was complaining that searching in Google Images for the search phrase [nude...

Posted on June 10, 2009 8:38 AM

Google Image Labeler is a fun game people can play to help Google Image Search better understand and tag pictures within the Google Image Search index. This game launched in September 2006 and has been somewhat under the radar since...

Posted on April 27, 2009 8:36 AM

One of my top referrers on virtually all my web sites is Google Image Search. Google Image Search typically is in the top five referrers for most of my web sites. And it is likely one of the top referrers...

Posted on March 11, 2009 8:48 AM

It was just about a month ago when we reported a Google image search update and now I am seeing reports of another update. A senior WebmasterWorld member posted a thread at WebmasterWorld on the 20th, reporting a new Google...

Posted on February 23, 2009 8:14 AM

Google has a search preference that allows a searcher to define how strict the adult filter should be. It is called Safe Search and I think it was originally designed by Matt Cutts. In any event, I am seeing dozens...

Posted on February 3, 2009 8:07 AM

I am now seeing early reports of a Google Image Search update via WebmasterWorld. The reports claim that Google has been adding new images to the image index and those images are now showing up in the search results. That...

Posted on January 22, 2009 5:36 AM

I am hearing reports from Search Engine Watch Forums that Google is now testing text ad formats for ads on Google Image search. You can see two screen captures of this in action, one at AccuraCast.com and the other at...

Posted on December 1, 2008 7:46 AM

This is pretty awesome stuff for history photo enthusiasts. Google has shared great information that it is now hosting a never-seen-before LIFE photo archive. The LIFE photo archive photographs date back to the 1750s! Stunning? Absolutely. And fascinating, too. One...

Posted on November 19, 2008 9:36 AM

We have been covering the topic of your images getting stuck in Google's image filter for a while now. But what if you followed our suggestions and still, you are stuck in the SafeSearch filter. What do you do? Well,...

Posted on November 4, 2008 8:19 AM

In May, we talked about getting your images out of Google's SafeSearch filter. That is, Google may deem your images somewhat "questionable" (maybe lewd and lascivious) and won't list your images within the standard (SafeSearch-enabled) image search results. We've been...

Posted on October 27, 2008 10:25 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has users noticing changes over at Google Image Search. The changes may be a filter or may be a full-blown image index update, hard to tell at the moment. The last Google Image update seemed to be...

Posted on October 20, 2008 8:10 AM

Ever just want to search Google Images for just photos? Well, now you can. A WebmasterWorld thread reports that Google has added a new filter option to the advanced image search section of Google Image Search, for "photo content." So,...

Posted on October 2, 2008 8:23 AM

We have been talking about the sensitivity of Google Image Search for a while now and the topic has made it to the popular picks discussion in Google Groups. Googler, Evan, posted a Google Groups thread discussing the various reasons...

Posted on September 10, 2008 8:10 AM

Google just can't win. I beat up Google on showing pornography or inappropriate images in their image search engine or on web search way too often. We complained in December that Google Image Search was too sensitive and then Google...

Posted on September 3, 2008 8:47 AM

In December 2007, we reported that Google's image search filter was a bit too sensitive and it filtered out many non-adult images as if they were adult images. We have new early reports from WebmasterWorld that some Webmasters are noticing...

Posted on June 12, 2008 7:29 AM

So we see that most SEOs believe a competitor can hurt your search rankings, we also wrote an article on How To Penalize Your Competitor's Site in Google but now we have a new WebmasterWorld thread on image search. The...

Posted on June 2, 2008 7:50 AM

What do you suppose would be the problem if your images are not showing up in Google Image Search? Let's review the scenario: a webmaster has a site that has purely G-rated images, but his images are not appearing in...

Posted on November 14, 2007 9:06 AM

How does one rank in the Google Image Search Engine? A Cre8asite Forums member asks this question and a bunch of good advice is dispensed. For one, filename, alt text, and surrounding text is important. EGOL says that while on-page...

Posted on September 27, 2007 8:20 AM

Last month, Barry wrote an interesting post about how you can refine your Google Image search results to show only faces. For example, by adding "&imgtype=face" to the end of a search string, you could find only faces of people....

Posted on August 16, 2007 9:30 AM

A new DigitalPoint Forums thread is discussing a feature on Google Image Search that most people do not know about. Did you know you can restrict your searches of images to those that just return faces? I did cover this...

Posted on June 21, 2007 7:13 AM