Google image search

If you go to Google Image search and search for any image, let's say flowers, and then go to the search tools and select the size option. Then you pick "exactly" and enter in a size and hit "Go." Nothing, absolutely, nothing will happen. There are a bunch of searchers complaining about this issue over the past week in the Google Web Search Help forums.Google's Andy B. said today that he hopes this is resolved within a week. He wrote "the team has found and verified a fix for this issue, but unfortunately it won't be live for ~1 week due to the nature of how it needs to be rolled out. Understand this is not ideal, but we appreciate your patience in the meantime."Personally, I don't think I ever used this feature, have you?Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help. … [Read more...] about Google Image Search Exact Size Filter To Be Fixed

Google is updating the referrer URL from Google Image search in the upcoming months. This is super important news for anyone who has any web site that uses any form of analytics to track their incoming traffic. Those who use Google Analytics and nothing else, do not need to worry about this. But others might need to, espesially those that built their own analytical tools.The new referer URL is: https://images.google.com so when you get traffic from https://images.google.com you will clearly know it is coming from Google Image search. Google did outright say that the current and old referrer made it super hard for one to know where their traffic was coming from - what is core web search or image search. This will help Google said:For webmasters, it hasn't always been easy to understand the role Google Images plays in driving site traffic. To address this, we will roll out a new referrer URL specific to Google Images over the next few months. The referrer URL is part of the HTTP … [Read more...] about Google Image Search To Change Referrer URL For Tracking

A month ago, Google announced they are changing the referrer URL for Google Image search so you can better track image search from Google Images traffic to your site. Google Analytics announced how that will appear in Google Analytics and I do see some traces of that showing up in Google Analytics now. I covered this last night at Search Engine Land and the most interesting part to me is that the Google announcement about this Analytics change works when you go to that URL only when you add the ?utm_source=feedburner to the end of the URL - for example this works and this does not work.In any event, this is how you'd see the new Google Image Search traffic from Google Images:This does not seem to be rolled out yet but I am seeing traces of this in my analytics of this new referrer URL. I suspect Google has been testing this a bit and will be rolling it out fully.Google said "Soon, when the Google Images team makes their changes to the referral source URL, there will be a new Source … [Read more...] about Google Analytics Showing Some New Google Image Search Referrer Data

Starting yesterday I started noticing many many complaints in the Google Web Search Help Forums about Google Image Search. In short, some users were unable to trigger the preview to show a larger image, even after clicking on the image. Google is aware of the issue and is working on a fix.Andy B. from Google wrote:Thanks all for sharing details of the issue you're experiencing enlarging images. The relevant teams are aware and investigating, and we'll be posting updates to this thread as they become available. To clarify, this is a separate issue from the one originally reported on this thread (although the end result is similar). I am not able to replicate this myself, so maybe a fix has begun to roll out or maybe I was never impacted.There seems to be complaints from all types of users, using all types of browsers.Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help Forums. … [Read more...] about Google Image Search Not Enlarging Image On Click

Google seems to be testing yet another feature to show image thumbnails in the refinement bubbles/buttons at the top of your Google Image Searches. The refinement buttons let you further filter your image search to specific categories and here Google is testing to see if adding thumbnail images help.Here is a screen shot from Chinchu KB on Twitter:Here is what I see:I currently cannot replicate this on desktop or mobile, but it wouldn't surprise me if Google is rolling this out now based on comments made in this CNBC article about a search quality meeting inside of Google.The data ultimately showed that 91 percent of the time, raters found that image results were useful. In the live experiment, real users clicked through the pictures, too.Forum discussion at Twitter. … [Read more...] about Google Image Search Tests Image Refinement Buttons