Topic: Reverse image search

SearchCap: Google Lens, WordStream acquired & IAB report

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: IAB: Search, the largest category of digital ad spending, generated $40.6B in 2017May 10, 2018 by Greg Sterling Mobile was responsible for 54 percent of paid-search ad revenue last year. Ask […]

Google Images: Search By Image Not Working For Many

Google’s Search By Image feature is currently not functioning for many searchers. The search by image feature allows a searcher to take an image from their computer or plug in an image source URL into Google Images and Google will return related images, with web pages that may have more information about the image. The […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 2, 2013

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 Authorship Launches Within Image Search Today at SMX East, Google’s Pierre Far told the audience Google launched a small update to authorship by adding authorship rich snippets to Google Image […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 22, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Adwords Adds Social Annotations, Targeting For In-App Ads To Enhanced Campaigns Starting today Google is adding functionality for social annotations and in-app ad targeting to enhanced campaigns. Social annotations, really Google+ […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 16, 2012

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Confirmed: Marissa Mayer Leaving Google For Yahoo CEO Role CNBC is reporting that Marissa Mayer is leaving Google today, and will take over as Yahoo’s President and CEO as of tomorrow. […]

Google Search By Image Gets Smarter & Faster

Google announced that they have made a few improvements to Search by Image on Google Image search. The improvements include enhancing the best guesses, adding the knowledge graph to image results and adding fresher content to the image search results. Smart Best Guesses For Search By Image Now if you search by image, Google will […]

Google Images Related Searches Now More Visual

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 […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 17, 2011

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Up Close With Google’s Search By Image: Hits, Misses & More Earlier this week at its Inside Search event, Google announced a new way to search the web called Search By […]

Up Close With Google’s Search By Image: Hits, Misses & More

Earlier this week at its Inside Search event, Google announced a new way to search the web called Search By Image. Rather than enter a text query, Search By Image lets you begin your search with an image and Google will (try to) tell you what it is and show visually similar images. Search By […]

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 look for clues that might […]