May 13th, 2013

Google Commemorates The 37th Anniversary Of Atari’s Breakout With Image Search Easter Egg

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If you’re an old-school gaming nerd, then you might remember a little game released by Atari called Breakout. The idea was simple, just hit a ball around and break things. Don’t let the ball get past you, or you lose. → Read More

April 12th, 2013

Bing Integrates Pinterest Sharing Into Its Image Search

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Bing users can now easily share the images they find with their friends on Pinterest. Starting today, Bing’s image search will feature the standard Pinterest ‘Pinit’ button on every photo details page, so the integration isn’t all that deep, but according to Microsoft, this will save avid Pinterest users “some of the hassles they face” when they try to… → Read More

March 19th, 2013

Google Makes Animated Gifs A Permanent Part Of Image Search, Find Falling Cats Easier

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There are few people on the Internet who don’t enjoy a great animated gif. For some, having conversations only using these animated images is a way of life. But finding these images is a whole other issue. Relying on Tumblr blogs and regular Google search just wasn’t enough, so Google has decided to make it easier to find these cat-falling-off-of-chair masterpieces using its image… → Read More

December 18th, 2012

Bing Updates Its Image Search Results With Enhanced Photo Viewer, Speed Improvements

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Microsoft updated Bing’s image search results pages with larger thumbnails and less white-space earlier this year and today, the company is taking this one step further by also introducing a new way to explore imagery on Bing. Instead of loading the actual page with the image after you click on a thumbnail, Bing now brings up a large image viewer that, as the company says, places “the image center… → Read More

June 21st, 2012

Bing Rolls Out New Image Search With Better Search Suggestions, Filters And Bigger Thumbnails

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Just a few weeks after completely redesigning its regular search results pages, Bing rolled out a nice update to its image search feature today. With this update, Microsoft is improving its search suggestions for related searches and makeing it easier for users to filter images by size, color, type and layout. Bing also moved these features to the top of the page. This change gives Bing’s image… → Read More

May 9th, 2011

Google Cleans Up Image Search With Better Sorting By Subject

If you’ve ever done an image search on Google, you’ve probably gotten back a page filled with the same or similar images as the top result. If that is what you are looking for, then that’s great. If it’s not, then you have to keep clicking through until you find a decent image, and it can be a real chore.

Google lets you sort by image size, type (face, photo, clip art, drawing), and color… → Read More