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Jun. 24, 2008 at 8:49am by Barry Schwartz
Google Adds "Report Images" To Web Search Results
Finding adult images on Google by doing an ordinary web search is not all that uncommon these days. In fact, I reported one such as in March and another case this morning at the Search Engine Roundtable. What I also noticed this morning was a new feature to "report images"...
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Jun. 12, 2008 at 9:47am by Barry Schwartz
Google Logo Meets Hooters
People are always interested in the Google logo, especially as they often change it. But anyone searching now for google logo might get a surprise, as noted by Ari. Out of all the relevant images Google could have shown in the top three, Google picked this one as the...
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Apr. 28, 2008 at 5:24am by Danny Sullivan
Google Paper: Better Image Search Though VisualRank / Image Rank
A Google Prototype for a Precision Image Search from the New York Times covers a new research paper (PDF format) from Google that talks about a way of ranking images based on analyzing "visual links" between them....
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Mar. 19, 2008 at 11:59am by Barry Schwartz
Google SafeSearch Filter Bug: Porn Found On Google Universal Search Results
This morning I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that users have been spotting explicit pornographic images on Google web search for a search on hot celebrities (warning: before clicking, take caution). The query triggers Google to show an image search result at the top of the web search results,...
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Feb. 11, 2008 at 10:13am by Danny Sullivan
Google: We Didn't Censor Aboutrika's Gaza T-Shirt Photo
Google's Matt Cutts has lent his personal blog to the Google Images search team so they could debunk a rumor that Google censored an image of an Egyptian football player, Mohammad Aboutrika, stripping off his team jersey during the African Cup Of Nations to show a "Sympathize With Gaza" T-shirt...
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Dec. 7, 2007 at 8:49am by Barry Schwartz
Google Wants You To Talk About Your Images
Using ALT attributes smartly from the Google Webmaster Central blog has a new video from Matt Cutts on how to properly label your images so that Google Image search can properly rank them for relevant searches. In short, Matt recommends using a short but descriptive alt tag within the image...
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Dec. 6, 2007 at 9:11am by Barry Schwartz
Google Search Finds Wife With "Dead Husband" In Panama City
Woman found canoeist photo via Google from the Guardian Unlimited covers how the wife of a man believed to be dead found her story fall apart after a picture of the two of them together recently was found through the help of a Google Images search....
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Jul. 12, 2007 at 9:21am by Barry Schwartz
Hijacking Google Image Search Results
Google Blogoscoped discusses an issue with Google Images where Google will not always show the original source of the image in their results. In short, Google may display an image that is hotlinked via a third-party site, in a higher position within Google Images than the original image. One of...
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May. 29, 2007 at 8:55am by Barry Schwartz
Google Images Quietly Adds Face Filter
Google Operating System reports that Google has added the ability to restrict your Google Image search by faces. To do so, just append "&imgtype=face" after your search string. For example, a search on paris returns results of Paris, France, the Eiffel Tower, Paris Hilton and others. A search on paris...
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May. 16, 2007 at 1:37pm by Barry Schwartz
Court Reverses Preliminary Injunction Against Google Showing Thumbnail Images
Court ends ruling halting Google sex thumbnails from Reuters covers the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals lifting a preliminary injunction against Google over showing thumbnail images. In February 2006, a lower court ruled in favor of Perfect 10, which claimed Google violated copyright law by displaying thumbnails of images...
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Apr. 5, 2007 at 5:22pm by Chris Sherman
Teaching Google To See Images
"Image search" is really something of a misnomer, because current generation search engines rely primarily on text to "understand" all types of content, including images. When you search for images on Google, Flickr or most other search engines, they aren't examining the pixels that make up images. Instead, search engines...
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Feb. 21, 2007 at 8:42am by Barry Schwartz
Google Images Reverts Back To Old Design
Last month Google redesigned Google Image Search. Now it looks like Google reverted back to the old design today. Overall, many people did not like the new design, and I guess Google decided to listen to those comments. Why didn't people like it? Well, it didn't show the photo credits,...
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Jan. 24, 2007 at 9:04am by Barry Schwartz
A Design Change For Google Images
Philipp Lenssen reports that Google Images has undergone a design change. The most noticeable changes include: Removal of row by row light blue background color Addition of mouse over light blue background color on an image by image basis Removal of image URL source Removal of image file size Removal...
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Dec. 15, 2006 at 9:01am by Barry Schwartz
Google On Using Images
Vanessa Fox at the Google Webmaster Central Blog posted tips on using images on your site. In short, she explains that: (1) Don't put the bulk of your visible text in images, use real text (2) Use alt tags to describe the images (3) Do not keyword stuff the alt...
