Comments on: Is Google cheating on Image Search Results? http://www.linkrain.com/articles/is-google-cheating-on-image-search-results/ Spice up your website! Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:49:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Gabe http://www.linkrain.com/articles/is-google-cheating-on-image-search-results/#comment-1971 Gabe Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:42:24 +0000 http://www.linkrain.com/articles/is-google-cheating-on-image-search-results/#comment-1971 They're cheating? Well, who runs the company? They want to promote their services, and they relate two tags that are similar. That is the way that you get good google results on the other searches, because they relate tags. Also, if it really ticks you off that much, you can go live with the crappy, slow results from yahoo or jeeves. They’re cheating? Well, who runs the company? They want to promote their services, and they relate two tags that are similar. That is the way that you get good google results on the other searches, because they relate tags.

Also, if it really ticks you off that much, you can go live with the crappy, slow results from yahoo or jeeves.

]]> By: funeral-mist http://www.linkrain.com/articles/is-google-cheating-on-image-search-results/#comment-65471 funeral-mist Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:03:15 +0000 http://www.linkrain.com/articles/is-google-cheating-on-image-search-results/#comment-65471 This isn't search result cheating. If you go to the site which displays the first image (dmoz.jpg), located at http://onward.justia.com/cat-search-engine-optimization.html, you'll notice the title "Free Web Directory [...] Open Directory Project [...]" above dmoz.jpg. So, google does not only return search results which match the file name, but also images near a certain text or headline containing a part of the search query. There are not much image search results which match the file name/url. Otherwise google wouldn't find f.e. images named [some-md5-hash].jpg although such images could possibly contain f.e. a picture of a tree if you're searching for "tree" on google's image search. This isn’t search result cheating.
If you go to the site which displays the first image (dmoz.jpg), located at http://onward.justia.com/cat-search-engine-optimization.html, you’ll notice the title “Free Web Directory […] Open Directory Project […]” above dmoz.jpg. So, google does not only return search results which match the file name, but also images near a certain text or headline containing a part of the search query. There are not much image search results which match the file name/url. Otherwise google wouldn’t find f.e. images named [some-md5-hash].jpg although such images could possibly contain f.e. a picture of a tree if you’re searching for “tree” on google’s image search.

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