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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Google has recently been emphasizing current/fresh images in its image search product, and that effort continued today with the announcement of a new time-based filter. And unannounced is the re-appearance of other filters that went missing in Google's recent redesign. Let's start with the new filter: Among the image search filters in the left-side column is a new "Past week" option that surfaces recent photos added to Google's image search index. You can see it at the bottom of this screenshot: Meanwhile, up above that filter are options to filter image by Type (face, photo, clip ar [...]

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