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Incredibly low quality of google search images - EVER!

         

macas

1:14 am on Jun 10, 2010 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



From few last weeks to this day I got a lot bad news , frankly I wasn't bothered too much ( because you know , it's our webmaster chit-chat and new google changes , ect ...) but in last week more and more (ordinary) users how use GI ( Google Images) gave me bad thoughts about google images and today my neighbour said to me ( because he know I doing my webmaster job) : "#*$! is going on Google Images? Why that crap results are in front page and most dead links? "

I was quite for a minute , a shock.
He do not know anything about web industry( most of things) but clearly something went too much wrong.
I said to him I'll check what's going on and now I'm here .


And from webmaster side who have smaller , medium or bigger websites and gets main traffic from GI ( google images) , they all said to me " big drop " and a lot 'hotlinking images ' on front page of GI ... quite a lot for their images and keywords.

I checked personally ( and manually) about 10 websites ( from small to big) and how they rank on GI ... and it was total disaster.
Spam blogs,Blogs thefts, photobucket, a lot bandwidth thefts ... and new thing -dead links and dead websites on front page for their images/keywords.

Angry webmasters and angry users .
How to blame ? How will fix this madness ?
I hear a echo from Google.

Share a thought us and give a good explanation ( if that exist )

tedster

6:34 pm on Jun 10, 2010 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I'm rather surprised by those comments - my sense was that Google images improved over recent months compared to last year. Image search is very challenging, especially the hotlinking issue. Many websites intentionally serve their images on a different domain or hostname. It helps the page to render faster because more http requests can happen in parallel, via multi-threading.

So the challenge is this: how can a search engine tell the difference between this legitimate image handling and hot-linking?