Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google images'

A week or so ago, we reported that a search in Google images for Michelle Obama returned a racist image. The image was offensive, racist and has been removed from the search results - which is what I was hoping...

Posted on November 19, 2009 8:22 AM

I love new fun search features that have eye candy, such as the recently announced Google Image Swirl Google Labs project. It is a bit like Google Wonder Wheel but more images. The best way for me to explain it...

Posted on November 18, 2009 8:32 AM

If you conduct a search in Google Images for [Michelle Obama] you will see a racist image in the number one result. The image is hosted on buzzoverm.blogspot.com and here is a copy of the search result: Someone reported this...

Posted on November 13, 2009 7:20 AM

The Google blog announced you can now lock the SafeSearch filter to help prevent a computer from seeing adult or sexually explicit content in the Google images and results. To do this, go to Search Settings and click on "Lock...

Posted on November 12, 2009 8:28 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

I don't think I wrote about Google's latest search results test. Over the past month or so, Google has been testing images, several of them, directly under a search snippet. BlogStorm first reported the finding back on May 26th, and...

Posted on June 11, 2009 8:28 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

A Google News Help thread reports on a confirmed Google News bug where blank or black images show up in the search results. For example, a search for letsrecycle in Google News returns a result with an image that looks...

Posted on May 8, 2009 8:25 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

Google announced they have a new labs feature that allows you to find similar images using Google Image Search. To do so, go to similar-images.googlelabs.com and give it a try. I thought I try searching for danny sullivan to find...

Posted on April 21, 2009 8:39 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion started from a webmaster of a five year old e-commerce site, which had seen a drop in their Google Image search traffic, only to notice that their images are still in the Google results, but...

Posted on April 10, 2009 7:25 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

Having images show up in Google News can be very beneficial in getting searchers to click over and read what you have to say. The more visually appealing content and images you have in your articles, the better your chance...

Posted on February 6, 2009 8:24 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

Since 2005, we have reported signs of Google placing ads on their image search service. In May 2008, Google said they would run ads on image search and then signs of text ads on image search back in December. But...

Posted on January 16, 2009 7:51 AM

We have complained time and time again about Google showing inappropriate images , including explicit porn and other nudity in the Google search results. But it has been getting better overall, that is until I spotted a thread at DigitalPoint...

Posted on December 30, 2008 8:10 AM

The Official Google Blog announced on Friday that a new option is available for searchers: the ability to search for images by a specific style. For example, line art is obviously not the same as a photograph -- and now...

Posted on December 22, 2008 9:46 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

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

Conduct a search for educating in Google and you will see an image of a teacher standing over a student holding a small rod, with the student's pants down leaning over a desk. This is not what one would expect...

Posted on July 23, 2008 7:49 AM

Today we have Google ranking a swastika on Google Trends due to a Google's "machines and algorithms." And now we have Google offering a related search phrase for a Google images search on special people. The related search displayed is...

Posted on July 10, 2008 5:57 PM

I continue to report porn on Google over here, at Search Engine Land, via email to Googlers, via Twitter and Plurk and so on. But it seems that this is a battle Google is not winning. Why is this such...

Posted on June 24, 2008 7:14 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

A WebmasterWorld thread has serious discussion on obtaining advice and tips on getting your images out of the Google SafeSearch filter. Basically, sometimes Google might label your images as being sexually explicit or not appropriate for the average searcher. If...

Posted on May 8, 2008 8:09 AM

Warning, clicking on the following Google search result may return an image of extreme pornographic nature. The image is of a woman's vagina and is found on a pornographic site, but the image appears to be hosted on Google's Blogger...

Posted on March 19, 2008 6:50 AM

I just reported about a Google Image update but it seems with that update, Google has removed a very important feature. Typically, if you click on an image in Google images, it will open that image in a framed window....

Posted on December 3, 2007 7:24 AM

Both DigitalPoint Forums and WebmasterWorld are reporting Google has updated the Google Image Search index and algorithm over the weekend. Many people are noticing new images being found in the image search engine. Also some are noticing that Google is...

Posted on December 3, 2007 7:16 AM

Reports from WebmasterWorld are suggesting that there was a recent Google Images index update. WebmasterWorld senior member, zeus, said: I noticed some of my sites have got more images indexed on google image also a little change in rankings, but...

Posted on October 29, 2007 7:30 AM

If you visit Google Images in the UK, you get a little promotion for Google Image Labeler that reads: Want to help improve Google Image Search? Try Google Image Labeler. The link to Google Image Labeler links to http://images.google.co.uk/imagelabeler/. But...

Posted on September 17, 2007 7:20 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

As I reported yesterday at Search Engine Land, Google has reverted back from the new design they launched a few weeks ago, to the older the design they had before the redesign. Here is the before and after. Two days...

Posted on February 22, 2007 7:55 AM

It appears Google Images has changed their design and some of the usability of the pages. Now if you do a search at Google Images, such as on pineapple, you no longer see the image source details, including url source,...

Posted on January 24, 2007 7:37 AM

You conducted a Google News Search, let's say on Yahoo, and up come news results related to Yahoo!. But you see those images next to the articles? Where do they come from? That is the question a WebmasterWorld thread asks....

Posted on January 24, 2007 7:26 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread reports that Google is indexing and ranking YouTube results in Google Images. An example search that brings up results is [+"good times with weapons"]. I currently see four YouTube results displaying, there is also a screen...

Posted on October 23, 2006 7:45 AM

Ever want to see images on Google Images fly around the page? Well now you can. Spotted at SEO Home, you can view green trees at Google Images and then type in the JavaScript code found here in the URL...

Posted on October 12, 2006 11:42 AM