Search Engine News

Google Picasa Now Available To Google SearchersWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Friday, 16 of November , 2007 at 10:31 pm

(Source) Finally, Google has integrated Picasa Web Albums into Google Image Search. Public albums can be enabled for a public search option, meaning your images will be more likely to come up in Google image results. And that’s a huge improvement, because previously images on Picasa (and Blogger, and Google Docs) were not searchable at all. The other Google applications are still missing out on all the fun, but Picasa images are now searchable. This is limited, however, to a Google image search.

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Why You Should Sign Up For A Picasa AccountWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Saturday, 25 of August , 2007 at 1:06 pm

You may be asking, “What is Picasa?”

Picasa is Google’s photo album feature. It isn’t as popular as Flickr, owned by Yahoo, but I believe it just as essential because as more and more people go online and learn to make vertical searches, they will look for photos. Here’s how to use Picasa for SEO purposes related to your business:

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Google Makes Picasa Web Albums SearchableWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Sunday, 9 of December , 2007 at 11:54 am

I didn’t realize it, but I guess Picasa wasn’t indexed by the search engine that owns it. Now it will be.

I highly recommend you uploading your photos to Flickr and Picasa. The former is owned by Yahoo! and Picasa is owned by Google. That means your photos stand a much better chance of being indexed by at least one search engine if you create accounts and upload photos at both photo sharing sites.

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