July 5th, 2012

British Airways Borders On Creepy With “Know Me” Google Identity Check

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Using Google to develop passenger dossiers wth Google Images? Now that’s what you call customer service!

At least that’s British Airways spin. Privacy advocates call it . → Read More

July 4th, 2012

Concept Art Dictionary Gives A Word’s First Google Image Result Instead Of A Definition

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Here’s something that you’ll either want to buy immediately — or that will just strike you as a giant waste of paper. There’s no in between. Though I will venture a guess that Sergey Brin was going to get to this after he finishes with his Google Spectacles. From Crap Is Good, we’ve learned that two London artist/designers, Ben West and Felix Heyes, have created a visual dictionary, courtesy of… → Read More

July 20th, 2010

Google Unveils Image Search Ads — Your Ads Now With Picture Thumbnails

At its search event today, Google launched a new product that’s a part of Google Images: Google Image Search Ads. Basically, this allows anyone to advertise alongside Google Image searches in a new, more visual way.

This allows you to reach hundreds of million of users who are searching on Google on a daily basis,” director of Search products Ben Ling says. And Google Images is actually doing… → Read More

July 20th, 2010

Google Image Search: Over 10 Billion Images, 1 Billion Pageviews A Day

Today at Google’s search event in San Francisco, Vice President of Search Product and User Experience, Marissa Mayer, announced a revamp of Google Images — the company’s image search product. The service garners more than a billion pageviews a day for Google, Mayer said.

Director of Search Products, Ben Ling, then took the stage to show off some of the changes (which we previewed here). First… → Read More

July 20th, 2010

Google Set To Unveil New Look To Google Images

We’re here in San Francisco for a Google Search event. It’s not yet clear what this event will be about, but we know Marissa Mayer will be on hand to show off some new things. One of those things definitely looks to be a revamping of Google Images. Google has been bucket testing changes to the service over the past week or so.

The room we’re in has walls covered in a mural with large pictures. → Read More