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
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9 SEO tips for better Google Image search results
While a lot of energy is being spent trying to figure out how to take advantage of the anticipated growth in emerging areas like voice search, there is a much easier search medium that seems to be underutilized: image search. According to Rand Fishkin’s analysis of Jumpshot and Moz data, image search on Google is the second most highly used search platform behind Google.com and it is searched more than the remaining Top 10 web properties combined. According to data from Jumpshot and Moz, Google Images accounts for a considerable number of searches, dwarfing those performed on YouTube, Google Maps, Amazon and Facebook combined. Searches in Google Images are made more than 10 times as often as any search on Bing or Yahoo, and they represent more than 40 times the number of searches on Facebook. Graphic courtesy of Moz. The above chart doesn’t present a complete picture of search, as it doesn’t include search on other media such as voice search, … [Read more...] about 9 SEO tips for better Google Image search results
Google Image Search Traffic Drops For Many Outside The US
A WebmasterWorld thread has SEOs and webmasters upset about a recent drop in traffic from Google Image search. It is the same type of complaints when Google redesigned image search in 2013. Not all countries saw that redesign and traffic for the countries that didn't get the redesign did not change much. It seems that Google France, Google Germany and many many other local versions of Google has recently adopted the new design. When Google launched that new design for image search they had to tell webmasters it is better for them even though many were not happy. In any event, it seems it has been pushed out to other countries now and they are noticing huge declines in Google traffic. Of course, Google argued the traffic they initially saw was not real traffic but how Google sourced the image from their site while still on Google search. Here are some of the comments from the thread: Has anyone noticed that image search traffic has vanished I think it happened sometime between Tuesday … [Read more...] about Google Image Search Traffic Drops For Many Outside The US
Google image search lead Randy Keller jumps to Pinterest
In its early days Pinterest was described as a “social scrapbooking” or photo sharing site. CEO Ben Silbermann has called it a “catalog of ideas.” But the company has generally shunned the “social network” label. Whatever else it is, Pinterest is increasingly becoming an image search engine. Accordingly, the company announced the hiring of Randy Keller, who until last month was a senior engineer working on Google image search. Keller was at Google for roughly a decade and was part of the Image Search Quality team. His Linkedin profile says he lead a team “of 40 engineers . . . and was responsible for image search ranking, related images, guided search efforts and new emerging features like ‘Where to Buy’ and images appearing on web search.” Pinterest provided a quote from Keller about why he’s joining the company: Pinterest is the most exciting opportunity in visual discovery today, and I look forward to contributing my … [Read more...] about Google image search lead Randy Keller jumps to Pinterest
How to find copyright free images with Google Image Search and other resources
Whether maintaining a blog or a beloved long-running website, you will have likely run into problems with accidentally using copyrighted images. It’s easy enough to do, there’s so much misinformation around fair-usage from country-to-country that it’s easy to assume you’ll be safe, but still end up with a huge invoice from Getty Images. If you have fully paid-up access to an image provider or stock image library, then fantastic. But what if you’re just running a site with little-to-no revenue? Or… what if you’re sick of seeing the same old lame stock photos of millennials taking selfies? Images are a fantastic way to improve the readability of your posts and properly optimised images can also drive search traffic – you should definitely use them, even for the shortest articles. Luckily there are many places you can find good quality images, which you can use for completely free. Google image search – filter by usage rights As I … [Read more...] about How to find copyright free images with Google Image Search and other resources