Jupitermedia has ended talks with Getty images concerning a possible merger. In a press release from February 22 the company confirmed they were in discussions with Getty Images only after speculative articles had been written in the business press about the proposed deal.

“For Internet users in China, Google remains the only major search engine that does not censor any web pages.”

– The Google Team, 2004

About a month ago, Google Image Search started displaying its results a little differently; the makeover yielded a cleaner, but less informative, look. There was a low-level outcry from users, and now things are back to the way they were. That’s all good and well, and an important feature seems to have made it through the shuffle intact.

Google has done a terribly unpopular thing, redesigning Google Images so that it presents no new information, no new features, just increases the white space. It could be one of the worst redesigns I’ve ever seen.

Google Image Search has undergone a mild facelift, and the search results page is no longer cluttered with text about pictures’ dimensions, file sizes, and url sources. That information is less than a mouse click away, however – positioning your cursor over an image will cause all of the info to appear in a familiar blue box.

I must admit, I’ve been tempted to experiment with adding images next to Google AdSense ads.

So you’ve landed the client and their branding project. Congratulations! Now you’ve got to get down to the business of creating their marketing collateral-everything from the logo on the letterhead to the tri-fold brochure and interactive web site.

Google has released a major update to its Book Search in an effort to provide a more organic reading experience to the user as well as scholarly resources for readers wishing to delve deeper into the academic community’s take on a particular book.

Cory Bates over at UseTube recently conducted a small usability study which focused on user experiences on 2 different pages (simple text based vs. graphical intensive). Both pages had corresponding call to actions and at the end of the study users rated their experiences.

In an attempt to be innovative on the mapping front Microsoft has created bird’s eye view 3D images of numerous cities.

I’m sitting here listening to Jonathan Klein talk with a variety of bloggers. Thomas Hawk, CEO of Zooomr, and Kristopher Tate, Founder of Zooomr, a photosharing site are here too. So is Marshall from TechCrunch.

I wrote earlier about Google’s effort to enlist users to tag images, in part through a competitive game that offers an incentive system.

Heheh, a little cross-company smack talk going on over on the Virtual Earth blog.

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

I’ve been quiet here for over a week, but not because I don’t have a ton of things to write about. Actually, I’m focused on getting a special project ready that I’ll be releasing to the world via this blog on August 1st. Stay tuned.

If you want to preload images to your website, there are actually a few options available.

This article is a check list of definition and advice on how images are seen, stored and named for a website.

I’m not sure if publishers are going to like Pixsy.com or not, but the new image search engine hopes to index millions of thumbnail images collected from RSS feeds, according to CNET.

I had missed this earlier, but Yahoo recently rolled out a great new moblogging application called ZoneTag.

cNet (news.com) has come up with another clever contest using imagery from Google Earth.. funny, I could have sworn that clipping and reposting images from Google Earth on a commercial website was against the terms of use??

Want an easy way to view regular Google results side-by-side with censored Google China results?