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Google To Place Ads With Images

Google is experimenting with display ads to be placed alongside Google Image results, the company announced today via webcast. "What we're announcing today is a new suite of image-related experiments. We're pairing images with images for the first time--display ads with image search," said Google's search product management director R.J. Pittman.

Google's Safe Search Filters

Over the past few months, some webmasters have complained that images on their sites were wrongly nabbed by Google Images' safe search feature. This means, of course, a significant reduction in audience size.

Yahoo Keeps It In The (Flickr) Family

A little bit of nepotism is to be expected.  A lot of it can be annoying, and, in the case of Yahoo’s image search results and Flickr, rather less than helpful.

BigStockPhoto Gets New Search Engine

I once dealt with a stock photo site, and I had a pretty poor experience - its search engine returned either no results or a bunch of useless ones, depending on the query.  The site I visited was not BigStockPhoto.com, but BigStockPhoto’s new search engine nonetheless represents a huge improvement.

Social Search - The Future of Image Search

[Disclaimer: I'm CEO of Zooomr, we are building both a social based image search system as well as a stock photography platform]

Build and Protect Your Corporate Image(s) Online

If I were to start talking about optimizing content, most of our readers immediately conjure up visions of text words, words, words.