Feb 23, 2012 at 4:24pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Google announced the related search links at the top of the Google Images search results are now visually appealing. You can now mouse over the related search phrase and Google will hover open an image preview of what the first three images look like for that image search query. Here is an example of searching for [greece] and hovering my mouse cursor over the related search phrase [santorini greece]: You can click on the image for a larger preview. Google is rolling this new feature out over the "next few weeks." Related Stories: Google Images Carousel For Tablets & [...]

Google Images Carousel For Tablets & Better Movie Results For Phones

Dec 9, 2011 at 1:46pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Google announced two new improvements to mobile interfaces. The first is a new look for image results on tablets called the image carousel and the second is better movie results on Android and iPhone devices. Tablet Image Carousel: When you use Google Images on tablet devices including iOS or Android tablet’s browsers, and then click on an image, you will see the new image carousel feature. It is very similar to the smart phone experience from April, where you can swipe through images or click the arrows through images. It is also similar to the feature on the Google iPad app. He [...]

Related Topics: Google: Images | Google: Mobile

Improved Snippets, Rank Boost For “Official” Pages Among 10 New Google Algorithm Changes

Nov 14, 2011 at 12:11pm ET by Danny Sullivan

Google just posted about ten new algorithm changes it has made to how it shows and ranks search results. These include showing rich snippets more often, improving the quality of snippets, a better way of showing page titles for times when Google ignores the HTML title tag itself and a ranking boost for "official pages," which Google says it can detect better now. Snippets & Page Titles Below are changes related to snippets -- the descriptions that Google shows for web pages -- and page titles. I've quoted from the Google blog post, where that's appropriate and paraphrased in other cases [...]

Related Topics: Google: Images | Google: SEO | Google: Web Search | Top News

Don’t Search Google Photos For “Gmail” While At Work

Sep 12, 2011 at 5:13pm ET by Barry Schwartz

An anonymous reader sent us a tip that searching for [gmail] using the Google "Photos" option will return a lot of pictures of women not fully dressed. I was able to replicate the problem images by going to Google, searching for [gmail], clicking on the "more" option and selecting "Photos," as you can see below: After you click photos, you are presented with many images of women that are not fully pornographic, but most likely not safe for work. Here is an uncensored image: The "Photos" option pulls back images from the Google Picasa photo sharing service, as opposed to the mo [...]

Related Topics: Google: Images | Google: Picasa | Top News

Google Images Improves Relevancy & Quality Algorithm

Aug 11, 2011 at 12:12pm ET by Barry Schwartz

This week, several webmasters at WebmasterWorld noticed that the results in Google Images seemed to surface the original source of the images more of the time than it did in the past. I wrote about this at the Search Engine Roundtable as Google Images possibly improving their image source detection algorithm, but it is more. A Google spokesperson they have launched a new update for Google Images that improved relevance and quality. Google told me: We've recently launched an update to the algorithm that looks at the relevance and quality of both the webpage and the image to surface [...]

Related Topics: Google: Images | Google: SEO

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