Google uses content previews, including text snippets and other media, to help people decide whether a result is relevant to their query. The type of preview shown depends on many factors, including…
Google Images has made a series of changes to help people explore, learn and do more through visual search. An important element of visual search is the ability for users to scan many ideas before c…
It's been two years since we started working on "mobile-first indexing" - crawling the web with smartphone Googlebot , similar to how most users access it. We've seen websites acros…
UPDATE : After testing and further consideration, we have determined that the best place to measure query and click traffic from Google Images is in the Search Console Performance Report . Accordingl…
When you want to bake cupcakes, but you don't know what kind, Image Search can help you make a decision. Finding an image with a recipe can be challenging: you might end up on a page that has onl…
Webmaster Level: All Sitemaps are an invaluable resource for search engines. They can highlight the important content on a site and allow crawlers to quickly discover it. Images are an important ele…
Webmaster Level: All What's our take on watermarked images for Image Search ? It's a complicated topic. I talked with Peter Linsley—my friend at the 'plex , video star , and Product Mana…
Webmaster Level: All We recently introduced a new feature on Google Image Search which allows you to restrict your search results to images that have been tagged for free reuse. As a webmaster, you m…
