Indexed numbers jump in Google images?

[ianevans]

Anyone else notice a huge jump in Google images today? Our indexed results jumped about 8x this afternoon.

[ianevans]

Just looked again at the site:example.com and the number was back to what it was earlier today.

I realize you can hit different data centers. I haven't seen 4000+ of our images in the index since 2006 and there was a ton of newer photos in there. Can I assume that the 8x larger result I saw two hours ago is a new crawl that will be rolled out to the other data centers?

[tedster]

It's always risky to assume things like that - you may have seen a temporary or test data set, one that might never be used full time. However, you can certainly hope. It is an encouraging sign.

[ianevans]

Very odd what happened just now...

After reading your post, I did the site:example.com search in Images and page 1 reflected 608 images. I noticed a newer image in the result set. Clicking over to page 2, it now said "Results 19 - 36 of about 4,080". A ton of recent photos in the results.

As I paged through subsequent results, the total would change from 608 to 4080 every few pages, as would the amount of recent photos.

Crazy...and fingers crossed.

[ianevans]

An update...the weirdness continues with result numbers toggling between 600+ and 4K+ as I page through the results.

I'm also seeing images that were just added a few days ago. Fingers crossed...