Yahoo Image Search Updated

[Brett_Tabke]

Now at a cool 1 billion images.

[search.yahoo.com...]

[shabir]

Cool..Google is still searching at 0.88 billion!

Congrats Yahoo!

[hdpt00]

Anyone want a gentlemen's bet that Google updates their count within one (1) week from this post. Anyone?

[Chndru]

Where is the one billion there?

[Teknorat]

Says it on the front page.

Yahoo! Image Search
No other search engine gives
you a more complete picture.

• Now over 1 billion images
  
• Yada yada
  
• Yada yada

Yahoo image search often finds that obscure image I'm searching for when Google doesn't. Well done Yahoo.

[Brett_Tabke]

So this is a roll in/out of the old AllTheWeb multimedia and gfx object engine?

[Chndru]

>>Says it on the front page.

Thanks. :) It just shows how much i hate their front page. I rarely go there, if i have to.

[Teknorat]

Heh- it is an ugly old beast to be sure.

[DigiSEO]

600,000 of which are porn. Use Google if you want to get descent images.

[fedtmule]

does that mean google doesn't have any porn?

[DigiSEO]

No, Google has plenty. Yahoo! just has a whole lot more! :-)

[RobBroekhuis]

Does anybody know how to identify referrals that come through via Yahoo image search? I've tried a few times, and my logs show no referrer string.
Rob

[Spica]

RobBroekhuis:
On my logs, these show up with a referrer string starting with:
"http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages

[angiolo]

I wish I had the same rankings in the normal search; there is not a duplicate URL filter...

[RobBroekhuis]

d'oh! Never noticed until just now that my browser from work NEVER returns a referrer string, no matter where I come from (I don't usually get to my site via other sites, so I never noticed before). Is that a user browser setting, or more likely to be determined by a corporate tinkering/firewall?
Rob