Google Images Shows Many Results From The Same Site
I’m glad to see this change (which I hadn’t noticed before): Google Images will now show more than two images per page from a single site.
Before, Images would show two images from a site, then a link to show more from that site. This seriously decreased the value of Google Images, because in some cases a single site will have 100 relevant images, while the entire rest of the internet will have many irrelevant images. Now, if one site has three or more relevant images, Google will just show you the best ones, no matter where the come from.
Nowhere is this more evident than a search for my name (how do you think I found it!). As you can see in this screenshot, 14 of the 20 results on page 1 come from InsideGoogle, as indicated by the arrows:
This is a great change, one that seriously upps the utility of Images. It should be the default for Images, but available as an option on other Google engines, were sometimes it makes more sense to show more results from more relevant sites. I’d love to have a link to turn this on once in a while for Google web search.
January 28th, a friend of mine was complaining that a search for Avril Lavigne (on Image Search) resulted in lots of pictures from Alexis Bledel. The cause? Most of the page contained pictures from a single domain.
I just re-ran the search, and noticed it no longer had a heap of irrelevant images on one page (though it still contained some, which I think is perfectly acceptable).
Anyway, I’m guessing they’ve been experimenting with it for a while, but perhaps not on the first result page. Good catch.
Comment by Tim | June 14, 2007