Is Google crawl the content within the images?

[mareeswaran]

Hi friends i have some doubt's regarding Google algorithm please share your ideas

1. Is Google crawl the content within the images? one of my friend told that Google update their algorithm is it true or not?

2. from where i can know the Google's recent updates?

[snakeair]

Originally Posted by mareeswaran

Hi friends i have some doubt's regarding Google algorithm please share your ideas

1. Is Google crawl the content within the images? one of my friend told that Google update their algorithm is it true or not?

2. from where i can know the Google's recent updates?

1. Google does index images in there image search engine so it's good to have a Alt Attribute on the images. I'm not sure i'm understing your question right, haven't had that first cup of coffee yet. lol


2. This forum tends to stay up to speed with Google changes and threads are created about them in either the Google or SEO section so it's good to hang out on this forum a few days a week.

Besides checking out this forum, Subscribe to Googles Inside Search blog for some updates on changes they have made. http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/

[ponvendhan]

Images are just images, search engine can't read the content on it. Google index the images by the file names, caption and description.

[Band333]

Google does have ability to crawl content within images, they may implement such technologies to improve images search. The technologies similar to OCR software.

Goggles have ability to recognize common text.

APPS: http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#text

[C.Rebecca]

Well, Google can crawl the images but it cannot read the content in the images. So if you want to define something related to the image you have to use ALT tags.

[Band333]

Originally Posted by C.Rebecca

Well, Google can crawl the images but it cannot read the content in the images. So if you want to define something related to the image you have to use ALT tags.

This is not true. Google map have ability to blur up plat number and people face. Which mean they have technologies to recognize an images.

[SpiderZq]

Originally Posted by Band333

This is not true. Google map have ability to blur up plat number and people face. Which mean they have technologies to recognize an images.

they have technology? so does that mean they have also implemented this in SE too? btw! don't you feel any difference in face image recolonization and text OCR reading?

[boon_pal]

Google can crawl the images file but not the content. If you want to insert the keyword in images for seo purpose you can use ALT tags, Title tags and description part of the images.

[C.Rebecca]

Well, Googlebot (web search) is color blind. Probably Google is using some other bot for maps like they way they use for mobiles and AdSense.

[Marksns]

If Google could see the words in a picture that would be amazing.
I know they transcribe videos in YouTube for keywords. So that would have to be the next be step.

[steveschmidt85]

Google cannot fetch any text from images. Yah google can fetch text from flash file.

Google have new updates in last few days like Penguin Updates for Web Spam. You can refer all updates in google at Google official blog and forum like this.

Thank You
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[seoservicesplus]

Google and other search engine read images, You have notice that Google some time shows images in search results. Google bot and other search engine bots read image attributes like ALT tag. Thanks

[Steve Michael]

Crawlers cant read the text present in the images. It just identifies the image with the file size. Hence is neccesary to use ALT tags for images.

[mariyajames]

Yes, Google do crawl images and can read the content in image. So it is beneficial to put keyword in image as alt tag so that Google can read your image and also you can rank for that keyword.

[aruldave]

The Gooogle search engine is not capable of crawling images as it only can collect the details around the images like file name, size, height, width, image extension and so on. The image details fetching is used in place where high security needed. In digital communication some hackers they used to integrate the message with the image as normally looks an ordinary image but it has been loaded with encrypted message and this will be available when decrypt the image. What I feel is implementing search engine algorithm to this much level is more complicated to read the image information. So search engine would not crawl the image file.

[spaculus]

ya of course. Google also crawl the image name and its content. So your image also have unique and high quality content and meaning full name same as your image.

[MR.SEOMAN]

Google cannot crawl content within images, if you put words inside of an image google won't see it. The only thing that they see is the filename of the image.

Same goes with flash content

[GeraldNitram]

Originally Posted by MR.SEOMAN

Google cannot crawl content within images, if you put words inside of an image google won't see it. The only thing that they see is the filename of the image.

Are you saying that the alternate text that people put in the alt attribute doesn't make images become crawlable? What if you're using a browser that allows only the text for everything to load? What if the image doesn't completely load? Wouldn't that result to content in the form of text?

[Anton Zaleski]

The only thing Google gets from an image is alt text and other html stuff. And yes, you'd better do the optimization for them.

[neo127]

As we know that crawlers are not human being and just a program (not like Agent Smith ). They are made to read the HTML of the pages, they can get the file name, alt text or any other content wrote for them (but they can't associate the content with image).