Google has been celebrating its 20th anniversary, as well as updating its service. This week, they are focusing on their image search results and improvements. When someone searches for “blackberry cobblers”, they only want to see photos of “blackberry cobblers”, not any photo that has “blackberry cobblers” typed into its subject.

Google has shared some of the information about their updates on their blog post, “Making Visual Content More Useful in Search.” They let us know how important images have become in people’s search queries. For some folks, it is faster to find more information by simply looking at a photo, especially on a mobile device. Google has already started to focus on a site’s photos – if they are located at the top or middle of a page AND concur with the content, they will be ranked higher.
Google also presents the three items on their agenda they will be focusing on to improve Search results in the next 20 years:
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