Google’s algorithm for reporting on image search impressions within the Google Search Console performance report was updated on April 6, 2021. The update that was made isn’t a result of any ranking algorithm updates, but just a reporting change, and that is it. According to Google, the update is specific to “image impressions when type=image …

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Recently, antisemitic memes have appeared in Google Image search, and many want something done about this particular content appearing. So far, Google isn’t the only search engine that these particular images are being found on. They are also being found on Bing and DuckDuckGo. It would seem simple to remove this content from the index, …

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Although the virtual reality industry has had billions of dollars put into it, it still isn’t mainstream. But this may not be the case with Augmented reality (AR). Over the last several years, AR features have appeared in a number of different brands and retail apps, including L’Oreal, Wayfair, Crate & Barrel, Gucci, Ikea, Lowes, …

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In this SEMrush video, we’ll look at ‘How to Do a Reverse Image Google Search on Desktop and Mobile Devices. Did you know you can search Google with an image? Google’s reverse image search is easy to perform on a desktop and mobile phone, that includes iPhone and Android devices. Let’s look at the easy …

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In this installment of Ask Google Webmasters, John Mueller goes over a series of tips on optimizing images for search results. Mueller, before talking about the technical details of image optimization, asks site owners to take a step back and take a look at the larger picture. Basically, don’t optimize images just for the sake …

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On December 16, Microsoft announced that Windows users are now able to initiate Bing visual searches right from the search bar, without having to open a browser. US users will be the first to get the feature during the initial roll out, while international markets will follow shortly after that. Users can submit a full …

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On Google’s image search results page, the company is displaying the availability of products to users. This was spotted by Frank Sandtmann, a Hamburg-based digital marking consultant. He noticed that the feature was in English, German and Polish image search results. Powered by product Schema markup, product availability in the image results is denoted in green …

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Google has launched “Swipe to Visit,” an Images search feature that displays a preview of an AMP-enabled website’s header after a user selects an image result. After that, the users can swipe up on the preview to load the images’s corresponding web page. With visual searches, users can efficiently scan and compare many offerings By …

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There is now a “Share GIFs” section in Google image search results that allows users to immediately share GIFs to different apps. This feature is powered by Google’s own GIF search engine, which has grown considerably since acquiring Tenor last year. Google says that search interest in GIFs has nearly tripled in recent years: “GIFs have become …

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With the latest plugin update from Yoast, webmasters are able to include an image, avatar or logo in its structured data graph. It even adds a new filter that can be used to disable link indexation. Yoast also announced that it will be pulling support for versions of WordPress below 5.2 once 5.3 is released. Aside …

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