Google Images to replace dimensions overlay on image thumbnails
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Google Images to replace dimensions overlay on image thumbnails
Google Images will soon replace the dimensions information you see in the image search results, as you overlay your mouse cursor over a specific image thumbnail. Google will replace the dimensions information with product, recipe, video, and soon, licensable labels based on the query.
What is changing? Here is a screenshot highlighting the dimensions section of the image thumbnail in Google Image search:
By the end of this week, a Google spokesperson told Search Engine Land, the image size dimensions will be replaced with product, recipe, video, and soon, licensable labels.
Google was unable to share a screenshot of the new change. We will update this story when we see the new labels show up in Google Image Search.
Why the change? Google said this will help searchers find visual ideas and get more done directly from the image thumbnail. Images that are licensable, will likely show the license label in that overlay. Images that come from videos, will show a video label. Recipe photos will show the recipe label and so on.
Why we care. If this does indeed work as Google expects, more engaged searchers will help increase clicks on your images and hopefully traffic to your web site. This gives us even more reason to make sure to add the various markups to our images when applicable.