Google unveils Image Search image ads Google has added image ads to its Image Search engine. Earlier this month, in a radio interview with Bloomberg, Google indicated that image-happy ads were on the way, and they officially arrived this morning, during a press event at the company’s headquarters. "What we’re announcing today is a new suite of image-related …
"In Pittman's slides, some ads were indistinguishable from organic results except for a yellow background and a "sponsored links" tag. They were the same size, the same format, etc. - and they were not set to the side of the page."
You mean the same as normal Web search ads? The ones we ignore every day? I think you're exaggerating a tad there...
On another note, can anyone actually think if a use for image search for anything but porn?
Paris, cos she'll probably put up ads for her "products".
They already shoe-horn in images in the normal search results. Anyone remember google being quick and image free once upon a time?
I hate the YouTube vids they shoe-horn in (Who owns YouTube again?) with thumbnails.
But now ads in image search, another fine way to slow down your searching and bloat your bandwidth.
Thanks google for 'improving my experience'
Someone recommend and competitor I wont feel dirty using.
For your further enlightenment KenBW2, searching for images can be far more rewarding than searching for text strings, especially as I haven't noticed adverts or waves of porn B4 now.
Search "snakehead", "newts", "kiln", "Peugeot 106", to see what I mean.
As far as I am aware, none of these are particularly pornographic terms.
Also, I don't have to wade through endless pages of search results that are only listings of other search engines search results, before I get to what I want to read about.
However, this week I have been seriously thinking that it is probably about time to hang up the broadband connection altogether. Seeing as there is generally so much shit to wade through these days, particularly fucking advertising shit. I don't see why I should continue to make the ISPs profits larger while my own information superhighway experience is less profitable and more effort to keep a machine clean of unwanted ads, day by day.
If the experience deteriorates any further, it won't be an experience that I look forward to, but one to avoid.
Who's to say that when my child searches for something inoculous like, "Charles Dickens", she won't trawl a load of porn sites in the Google search results, or the ads placed by Phorm and the phormettes ?
ALF
How dare Google try to get a return on the investment they have put into their industry leading Image search engine?
All image searching should be run at a loss!!
PS - If they new adverts bother you, then don't use it. But I have a sneaking suspicion you will.
In other words - stop your moaning. Start your own Image search engine if you don't like it.
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