Google Images Updated

[Imaster]

Anyone else seeing the same?

[Spica]

Yes, I see it now. I didn't when you first posted this. However, it is easy for me to tell since Google had somehow "lost" both of my sites in their previous update. Now, they are back.

[pardo]

Yep, can confirm huge changes since a day or two overhere...

[pmkpmk]

Confirmed for Germany too. Probably related to the recent deep crawl [webmasterworld.com]? Are the images also spidered by googlebot or do they call it by another name?

[Spica]

pmkpmk, you should look for Googlebot-Image in your logs ("Googlebot-Image/1.0").

Speaking of that bot, I find strange that last time Googlebot-Image was on my site was mid-October, with no other hit from it since them. Spider in October, update in February, that seems rather slooooooooooow, doesn't it?

[newsphinx]

Great News! Google Image Search used to be among top 5 of our traffic source. In the last update. It dumped all our pictures from all 5 sites we own. Now they come back!;)