Your images have a new job in AI search
AI doesn't see your images the way a human does. See what it detects, what it misses, and whether the page confirms the right story.
Topic: Computer vision
How to optimize video for AI-powered search
Learn which video signals AI relies on, and how visuals, audio, transcripts, and schema shape search visibility and brand accuracy.
Image SEO for multimodal AI
Images are now parsed like language. OCR, visual context and pixel-level quality shape how AI systems interpret and surface content.
How to make products machine-readable for multimodal AI search
Design ecommerce images that AI can accurately interpret, from OCR-ready labels to curated context and sentiment-aligned visuals.
Google Search Live is live in U.S., with voice and camera AI mode
Google Search Live lets users talk with Search and share camera views for AI-powered answers, context, and links in real time.
Google Search Live video goes live and AI Mode uploads, Canvas and Lens in Chrome
Google announced a number of new AI features for AI Mode and Search Live today.
ChatGPT Search gets ‘smarter’ and adds image-based queries
ChatGPT search now handles complex queries better, supports image prompts, and reduces repetition. But expect overly detailed replies.
Google Search goes ‘Live’ with real-time camera help
Google Search Live will offer explanations, suggestions, and links based on what you see in real time via your camera.
Beyond tagging: High-value GenAI use cases for DAM
DAM + generative AI = A new paradigm for creatives and martech leaders.
Google vision match vs. traditional search: Early insights on AI shopping tool
Odd results, big price gaps. This early look into Google’s AI shopping tool shows both the promise and the problems.
Google AI Mode lets you ask questions with images
Google added multimodal capabilities to AI Mode, and expanded access beyond Google One AI Premium subscribers.
Google Lens for in-store and local shopping
Now just point and shoot a photo and get prices, reviews, product details and more while looking at products in a retail store.
New Google Search AI features to help you plan, research and learn
New features include AI Overviews, multistep reasoning capabilities, planning capabilities, AI-organized search results, and a new Google Lens ask with video feature.
AI-powered content management: How to make your workflows more efficient
Learn how AI transforms content management by streamlining workflows, personalizing content and optimizing performance.
Generate image alt text at scale with AI: A 7-step guide for SEOs
Use image-to-text and text-to-text AI to efficiently generate quality alt text at scale
GPT-4 vs. Google Cloud: Performance comparison on 9 SEO tasks
GPT-4 isn't the be-all for SEO automation. Compare its performance to Google Cloud's APIs for text analysis, content transformation and more.
Google Maps new search results makes photos significantly more important
This is a new "photo-first" search result layout where business owners need to pay more attention to the photos that show up for their business listings.
Yelp unveils enhanced ad targeting capabilities
Neural network usage has reportedly improved its search results, photo classification abilities and Waitlist accuracy.
ChatGPT rolls out voice and image prompts
The new functionalities will be rolled out onto ChatGPT's subscription platform over the next two weeks.
Pinterest puts more emphasis on its shoppable video feature
The feature was released in 2021 and has 450 million users
The new contextual ad targeting works, study says
A new study looks at how contextual relevance of ads to content influences consumers.
The future of search begins with a ‘V’
Voice and visual search will ultimately become significant drivers of query volume beside text input.
Google beats out Microsoft, Amazon, IBM in image recognition study
Image search recognition is getting pretty good, here is a study that shows how good it is right now.
Bing upgrades text-to-speech, expands intelligent answers, improves visual search
Check out the latest upgrades made to Bing around voice, image and answer search.
Google now builds its own AMP stories for search
So far, these stories only seem to work consistently in the Google search app, and not in mobile Chrome or Safari mobile browsers.
Google announces cards, discovery tools, revamped image search at 20th anniversary event
Most of the new features were for mobile devices and focused on structured data and machine learning.
Bing visual search adds support for your camera and photos
Bing unlocks new intelligent visual search features within the Bing app for iOS and Android.
Google Lens improvements ready visual search and AR for mainstream adoption
Better text recognition, lookalike search and real-time functionality are upgrades.
Bing announces AI-powered new ‘intelligent search’ features
None of the features or changes is disruptive, but they collectively point to the fact that search evolution is accelerating.
SearchCap: Google mobile index, Bing ads in-market targeting and Pinterest search
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s mobile-first index likely not coming until 2018 at earliestJun 13, 2017 by Matt McGee At SMX Advanced, Gary Illyes says Google will “communicate a lot” before rolling out the mobile-first […]
How Pinterest has developed computer-vision technology to power visual search for users and brands
Pinterest has been developing computer vision technology since 2014 and is now applying it to visual search queries and ad targeting.
Bing Visual Search lets you search specific objects within images
Bing joins Google, Pinterest and others in upgrading its image search capabilities.
Google’s latest search update gives art lovers a deeper dive into the masterpieces
Google's Search team worked with its Arts and Culture team to improve art-related searches and create a new Street View feature for art museums.
Flickr’s new ‘similarity search’ feature makes it easier to find visually similar photos
Flickr says its new search option uses advanced technology to surface similar photos without much work on the user's end.
Google to showcase Project Tango indoor mapping and VR/AR platform at Google I/O
Google's ambitious Tango initiative brings the digital and physical worlds even closer together.
Bing’s CelebsLike.me Finds Your Oscar Doppelganger
As part of its Academy Award Experience, Bing has created a site that lets users upload photos of themselves to find their look-alike celebrities.
Google Researching AI Technology That Counts Calories By Analyzing A Photo Of Your Food
Google researcher Kevin Murphy said new Im2Calorie technology analyzes the depths of pixels in a food image to identify its shape and size.
Wolfram Alpha Launches Image Identification Search Engine
Wolfram Alpha does image search the Wolfram way, but showing entity data around the image as they interpret it.
Baidu To Build Computer Cluster 100X More Powerful Than The “Google Brain”
Bloomberg reports on an interview with Andrew Ng, the chief scientist of Baidu, China’s largest search engine. Andrew Ng, who founded the Google Brain project at Google in 2011 and now is at Baidu, said that Baidu is working on building out a computing cluster that will be 100 times more powerful than what they […]
Pinterest Beefs Up Its Search Chops With VisualGraph Acquisition
Pinterest is looking to improve search and discovery on its website and mobile apps with the acquisition of a company called VisualGraph. It’s a two-person company and both employees — Kevin Jing and David Liu — are starting at Pinterest today. In a statement confirming the acquisition, Pinterest says the acquisition “will help us build […]