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 Search. To see it, go to Google Images and search for named of people who may have authorship. Click on the image and if the image has…
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Google Takes Street View Images From The Tallest Building In The World At Dubai’s Burj Khalifa
Google Maps adds another first today with Street View images from Burj Khalifa, the Dubai skyscraper that sands at 828 meters (2,716 feet) tall, making it the tallest man-made structure in the world. According to Google not only is this their first-eve…
Google Image Search Adds Arrows To Browse Through Image Thumbnails
Google Operating System noticed that Google Image search added navigational arrows to browse through image search result large thumbnail by large thumbnail. When you load the image results, click on an image to see a larger preview, you will see arrows…
Google Images Tests New Related Searches User Interface
Google Operating System reports Google is testing a new Image Search interface for related searches. The example given shows images for [nexus 7] and at the top is a carousel of related searches to the [nexus 7]. When you click on one of those related …
Sorry, BuzzFeed: Pinterest Isn’t A Better Search Engine Than Google
I went on a BuzzFeed diet about a month ago, where I stopped following the site and reading the content there. I should have stuck to it, because I wouldn’t be wasting my time now dissecting one of its stupid, pageview-baiting stories. In this one, Pinterest is positioned as a better search…
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“My Photos” — Google Now Lets Find Your Google+ Photos Within Search
Google now lets you search your private photos and the photos your friends on Google+ share with you. All you need to do is search on Google for keywords such as [my photos] or [my photos sunset] to bring up matching photos. You can even search for your friend’s photos such as [danny’s photos…
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Google’s Latest Easter Egg Brings Atari Breakout Game To Image Search
Add this to the big list of Google easter eggs: do an image search for “atari breakout,” and you’ll be able to play the classic video game online, right in your search results. In fact, the image search results become the bricks that you have to eliminate as you play the game….
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Google Experimenting With New Related Image Search Interface
Google appears to be trying on a new look for its related image search interface. While the standard interface for related image searches includes a list of the related image queries that only show image thumbnails when you mouse over the related searc…
Study: Google Image Search Referrer Traffic Drops 63% Since Upgrade
Define Media Group released statistics from 87 different websites on the images the new Google Image Search design features have impacted on publishers websites. Overall, sites in the study saw an average decline of 63% of their traffic from Google Ima…