Google Site Command For Image Search Wonky

Sep 24, 2024 - 7:41 am 3 — by
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It seems that Google made a change, intentionally or unintentionally, to the site command within Google Image Search. When you do a basic site command, without appending keywords to the query, then Google will return no image results.

Here is a screenshot:

Google Site Command Images Broken

I spotted this via Kunjal Chawhan on X over the weekend and pined Google about it but I did not hear back as of yet.

I did notice that when you append a query to the end of the site command, it does return results:

Google Site Command Images Query

I suspect this is a bug but what do I know...

Forum discussion at X.

Update: John Mueller from Google replied to these concerns on LinkedIn and said, "Seems weird, thanks for pinging."

Update on September 27 at 5:40pm ET: It seems the site command fix is being rolled out now. I see it working on some Google data centers as of 5:40pm ET.

Here is a screenshot:

Site Command Google Images Fixed

Update: October 2nd: Seems broken again...

 

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