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1 Billion Page viewers visit Google Images per day

Google announced that their Google images receive 1 billion page views each day. The number was revealed by Google while they were announcing a major change of its image search. Speaking of the number, it is by far the largest image search engine till date. The image search engine has been growing for the last nine years since its inception. This amazing growth shows how the web has improved overall with all kinds of media. Google had updated its image search technology to remain ahead in the search battle. This new technology has the ability to view up to 1000 images per page. They are also planning to improve the density of the image search result page. All is set to launch a feature that allows user to get a bigger preview of an image by hovering the mouse over an image. You can also see new advertiser friendly features that were introduced through a blog post. They are launching a new ad format known as the Image Search Ads. This ad will appear only on Google Images and your lines ...

Google Image Search Ads

In addition to the redesign of its Image Search, Google has also launched a new ad format, Image Search Ads. This ad will appear only on Google image and allow advertisers to include a thumbnail image along side with the old lines of text. If you search with a specific keyword, the ads will appear on the search results page in a thumbnail image of the search item. Google Image Search Ads will prove to be a positive development for a business that advertises online. This will allow businesses to target the audiences who are searching for images expressly. Customers respond to images better than words and a text only standard Google AdWords ad is too easy to ignore. If you add a single image you will lure more people to any ad. The image ads will prove more effective for some searches than for others and Google expanding the Image Search Ads to its other services is highly likely. The image ads will also prove to be the most cost effective way to reach new customers. Now, advertisers wil...

Google Images finds a Better way to surf the visual web

When you think or search for “information” what most probably comes to your mind are a series of boring words and numbers. Google is very good when it comes to organizing and categorizing these types of information. But unfortunately not everything can be expressed by words. For instance, can anyone really explain how does it feel to be in the middle of a hurricane or a sand storm? This is primarily why Google images was built in 2001. The best answer for many searches wasn't text, but an image or a series of images. In 2001, Google indexed around 250 million images. And by 2005, over 1 billion images had been indexed. Today in the year 2010, Google has nearly indexed 10 billion images. Although there are a large quantity of images, there also needs to be quality. Hence Google has worked hard to make it even faster and easier for you to find precisely the right images. Google images contains pretty much any type of image, be it clip art, line drawings, faces or even colors. Since 2...