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Google Beats Out Microsoft, Amazon, IBM In Image Recognition Study

Over at Perficient Digital, an image recognition study was released that looked at the accuracy of the respective technologies. The study found that Google Vision beat out the competition, which included Amazon AWS Rekognition, IBM Watson and Microsoft Azure Computer Vision. As you can see below, Google has scored the highest among the technologies: There were …

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‘Swipe to Visit’ has arrived on Google Images

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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Google Adds Shareable GIFs To Image Search Results

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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Now Live: Google 3D Images And AR Integration In Mobile Search

A few weeks ago, Google had announced at its Google I/O event about its support for 3D images and AR within search. This feature is no live and available for use. Searches are able to search for objects such as [shark], [lion], [panda], [alligator] and the such. When users perform these searches, they can see …

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Google Says Image Search Referrals Will Not Get New Source URL (but forgets to tell us)

Google told publishers about 10 months ago that site owners and tool providers to get ready for a change in how Google Image search will be sending their referral URLs. Rather than Google Image search traffic coming from the google.com site, they wanted to change it to help webmaster understand their image search traffic. The …

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Google To Add Support For Higher Quality Images In Search, Swipe Up Images & 3D Images

During the State of the Search session at Google I/O on Thursday, Google announced that it will launch higher quality image support, 3D images, as well as the ability to swipe up images from AMP pages. Here’s some info regarding the 3D images from Google’s keynote Wednesday, and swipe navigation with AMP articles. According to Google, …

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Yoast Adds Image And Video Schema With 11.1 Update

With Yoast’s 11.1 SEO plugin update, image and video Schema enhancements have been implemented into their service. Even though it won’t necessarily improve your ranking by adding Schema, it can at least enhance the way your results appear. Google is showing more images in web search results, which means that if you add the appropriate …

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Google Starts Showing More Images In The Web Search Results

There are several tool that can track the Google search results, and they have been showing an increase in the percentage of time that Google shows image results in the core web results. The image search result box the might be displayed in the main search results now displays for a third of all queries …

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Google Shopping Ads to Automatically Appear in Google Images

Google Images is now a default placement option for users who run shopping ads in Google Ads. Last week, an email went out that informed advertisers of this change. Before this change, users had to manually opt-in to the Search Partner Network in order to have shopping ads displayed in Google Images. Previously, the images …

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