GOOGLE IMAGES TOP 1BN PAGE VIEWS
Baku, July 21 (AZERTAC). For Google a picture is worth more than a thousand words - it is worth one billion page views a day.
The search giant revealed the numbers as it announced a major revamp of its image search.
Some analysts say that the new features are already in use by rival search engine Bing.
There are now over 10bn pictures on Google image search, which launched in 2001 with 250m.
Google said that the update represented “a nicer way to surf the visual web.”
Google can put up to 1000 images on a page to allow the user to scroll through them without having to click in and out of pages.
The company has also built a thumbnail preview that pops up when you hover over a particular image providing relevant information like a website address or image details.
The layout of the page has also changed into what has been described as a "dense tiled layout" to let users look at a lot of images all at once.
There are keyboard shortcuts for faster scrolling and a new landing page that displays a large image in context with the website where it is hosted visible right behind it.
Google has also spruced up things for advertisers by allowing them to insert an image into their text ads.
The new ad format, called image search ads, will only appear on Google images for now and are seen as the latest in a series of moves to increase revenue. The new picture-rich ads are expected to sell for a premium over text-only versions.
Google said like the text ads on its search results page, the image search ads will be clearly marked as sponsored results and set apart from non-paid results.
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