Internet search giant Google today announced that its Google images are now worth one billion page views a day. Google revealed the numbers while announcing a major revamp of its image search. “This represents the largest image search engine by far,” Marissa Mayer, vice president of search told BBC News. “I have been watching image search grow and grow for the last nine years since its launch. This is a tremendous rise and shows how the web overall has gotten richer and richer with all kinds of media,” added Mayer.
In order to remain ahead in the search race Google yesterday updated its image search technology with the ability to view up to 1,000 images per page. Google is also planning to increase the density of its image search results page and it is all set to launch a feature which will allow the users to get a bigger preview of an image but just hovering the mouse icon over an image. The update also has new advertiser-friendly features, which were introduced via a blog post by product manager for Google images, Nate Smith.”We’re launching a new ad format called Image Search Ads. These ads appear only on Google Images, and they let you include a thumbnail image alongside your lines of text. . . . We hope they’re a useful way to reach folks who are specifically looking for images,” Smith wrote on her blog. According to experts, some of these features seem inspired by Microsoft’s Bing. “Some of the new features are, ahem, borrowed from Microsoft’s third-place Bing search engine, which has endeavored to out-innovate Google search ever since its May 2009 debut,” said Jeff Bertolluci of PC World.
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