You Can Report Offensive Images In Google Again
A few months ago, Google revamped their Google Image search and with that, the report offensive images feature dropped out. This morning, I noticed the feature is now back in the search results. It works a lot like the old method, you click on the “SafeSearch” link on the right of the Google Image search […]
Barry Schwartz on October 19, 2010 at 1:01 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
A few months ago, Google revamped their Google Image search and with that, the report offensive images feature dropped out. This morning, I noticed the feature is now back in the search results.
It works a lot like the old method, you click on the “SafeSearch” link on the right of the Google Image search box and select “Report offensive images.” Then a new button named “report” is added to the images. You can then click on the report button to report that image.
Here are screen shots:
Postscript: As of at least November 9th, Google has once again removed this feature from the image search interface. I do not know why at this point.
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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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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.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.