Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'image search'

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

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

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

A WebmasterWorld thread discusses a not-so-talked-about feature about how to locate whether your images have been used (or stolen) on your domain. Ogletree writes: I just found out you can do a site:domain.com search in Google images and get a...

Posted on June 22, 2007 10:13 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

When you name images so that they can show up in image search, what's your preference? What do you think is the best naming convention of the three below? actress-name-sexy-pic actress_name_sexy_pic actressnamesexypic That is the question at Search Engine Watch...

Posted on June 18, 2007 9:18 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports some changes to the rankings of Google images. One member reports; Last Monday Google image search was giving me 32% of all referrals. Today it's 16%. So definitely a big change. I also noticed some changes...

Posted on October 20, 2006 7:25 AM