The Big Four (Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask) have all integrated images into their organic search results, but how well are they doing it in terms of quantity and relevance? Eric Enge puts them
each to the test using 10 terms, complete with identifiers like "white mountain pics," "psoriasis pictures," and "forest images."
Overall, Enge says that the result quality was high.
Three out of the four engines picked up on his identifiers (pics, images, pictures) by offering images in the results a majority of the time--the one exception being Google. The giant only provided
pictures half the time, despite his explicit queries. Meanwhile, Microsoft integrated pictures into its core results 90% of the time.
Microsoft and Ask pulled all of their images
from their own image search engines, while Google and Yahoo culled a "substantial portion" of their results from third-party image sites instead of their own image search properties.
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