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Google Mobile Images Search Interface Update

Google Image Search received a major interface update today, but the new interface only shows on Android 2.1, iPhone OS 3.0 and above. The new interface looks like a stand-alone image search application, all full advantage of the touch screen mobile phone operation and effects of sideslip. The main improvements are: Search results page is [...]

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Google posts a disclaimer for Offensive Search Results

Google posts a disclaimer for Offensive Search Results

We recently reported a Google bomb on Obama. When you search for ‘who is failure’, it shows the white house URL on the top and Obama’s name. Likewise there has also been many Google Bombs in Google image search lately, for example Michelle Obama was targeted. Now Google puts up a disclaimer of the search [...]

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Google image search now has more search options

Google image search now has more search options

Google is currently testing the “Search Options” for Google image search. The New image search integrates the advanced search options in the sidebar in Google image search. In search of pictures found, inter alia, the color, you can specify the size and choose what type of results should be. For example: You can choose pictures [...]

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Google image search now searches under Creative Common license

Google image search now searches under Creative Common license

Google officially launched the ability to filter search results using Creative Commons licenses inside the Image Search tool. It is now easy to restrict your Image Search results to find images which have been tagged with the CC licenses, so that you can find content from across the web that you can share, use, and [...]

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Now Search the rainbow and filter images by color on Google Image Search

Now Search the rainbow and filter images by color on Google Image Search

Google has made the search by color in the image search now officially available. Currently there are 12 different colors to choose from in the image search. Unfortunately, the menu in Google Chrome 2 is not displayed…. So you can always try to get it to working by adding color=[color you want] in the Google [...]

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Google image search becomes more intelligent! – Now you can search images by color

Google image search becomes more intelligent! – Now you can search images by color

Google Image search can now be restricted to return results of a specific color. While this isn’t available as option in the advanced settings, you can use e.g. “imgcolor=green” or “imgcolor=blue,red” as parameter right in the URL. Setting the option to “blue”, for instance, shows images for your keyword which are mainly blue. Example: House: [...]

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