Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'image'

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

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

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

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

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

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 Search Engine Watch Forums thread asks a fairly basic SEO question. The member asked if the name of the image makes a difference in how a page might rank. Does the name of the image(s) on your page have...

Posted on July 18, 2007 7:19 AM

digg_url='http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/014177.html'; You thought you would never see it, an image or interactive ad on a Google search results page. But it is here, finally. A search for jason bourne has an ad at the top of the page, with...

Posted on July 16, 2007 8:26 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums member has discovered a way to optimize images for long tail searches that will yield results in both Google Web Search and Google Image Search. He says that the best way to optimize the images is to...

Posted on March 29, 2007 9:59 AM