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Google Improves Image Search For iPhone & Android

The Google Mobile blog announced they have made improvements to Google Image Search’s user interface and features for the iPhone and Android mobile devices. You can now see up to 20 images on a single page and when you click on the details of that image you can view a larger thumbnail, visit the web page containing the image, or view the image in full size. In addition, there is a “filters” link at the top right that let’s you filter by style and also set the safe search filter.

Let me walk you through some of the features.

I searched for [google logo] on my iPhone and was returned about 20 results on the first page:

Google Image Search on iPhone

I then clicked on the “filter” link at the top right to see filter options for faces, clip art, line drawings and photo content. Plus the filter option lets me set SafeSearch to strict, moderate or completely turn it off.

Google Image Search on iPhone

I selected line drawings and Google showed me these images:

Google Image Search on iPhone

I then clicked on an image to view more details. As you can see, I scan click the back or forward arrows to scan through the images. I can also visit the site hosting the image or view the full size image. And as you can see, it shows more details about the image under the image. Here is a screen capture:

Google Image Search on iPhone

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Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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