Google - Searching 425,000,000 images

why so little?

[PFOnline]

I'm sure there's probably like 425 million images of cars or something, alone on the internet.

Google web search searches 3 billion plus pages. And you know most of these websites probably have more than 1 image.

If all these websites searched had an average of just 2 pictures, that would still be 6 billion images.

Why the disparity?

Just curious. :)

Cause I only seem to get 1 referrer from Google image search, and its always for the same thing... "widgets wallpaper" but we have many more images.

[gsx]

The image search has not been around as long as the text searching facility.

Many web pages have a highly disbalanced html size to graphics size. It is not uncommon for sites to have a 10k html file with 300k of images on the same page. The average must be quite high and bandwidth must be an issue - both to Google and to the sites they crawl.

[oilman]

no to mention that many many webmasters have blocked google from their images folders - if you don't have any images worth searching for then why bother letting google chew up your bandwidth?

[nativenewyorker]

It is also probably because many people do not use alt or title tags for their images and without it, there is no way to index the images.

Ted

[PFOnline]

I thought Google ditched the alt tags?

[PFOnline]

And are now going by file names?

For example: when someone google images searches for "blue widgets wallpaper" and u have a file named "bluewidgetswallpaper.gif" it comes up.

[nativenewyorker]

PFOnline,

You may be right.

Ted

[Amras]

Does anyone know much about roadrunner bot from ImageScape? They are I guess an image capturing bot and have taken over on our 2 month old site a whopping 66% of spider hits, followed by ibm (who are they) at 13% and googlebot at 12%.