Comments on: Why Picasa Images Are Indexed Higher in Google Image Search Than Flickr http://thomashawk.com/2006/08/why-picasa-images-are-indexed-higher.html Sat, 26 May 2012 02:31:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: zmarties http://thomashawk.com/2006/08/why-picasa-images-are-indexed-higher.html/comment-page-1#comment-12368 zmarties Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1857#comment-12368 Thomas, I'd already picked up on Robert's post and hopefully added some clarification both at his blog, and within my own post "<a href="http://www.zmarties.com/picasa/blog/2006/08/picasa-uses-real-filenames-when.html" rel="nofollow"> Picasa uses real filenames when uploading - good for indexing</a>".<br /><br />Unfortunately I think that there are three distinct things that get associated with the word Picasa:<br />1) the desktop program - used to organize photos on the PC hard drive, but which is capable of uploading to online services<br />2) Picasa Web Albums - the online service which offers photo sharing on the web, and is what is normally meant by Picasa when flickr appears in the same sentence<br />3) other desktop programs produced by the Picasa company (which everyone is very aware is a Google subsidiary) - of which Hello is the only real example.<br /><br />Your writing has not made it explicit which of the 3 you were referring to, though I think you probably have longest experience of using Hello to do your uploads. Have you any further insights from your experience of using the main Picasa client app to do your uploading, or of using Picasa Web Albums for image hosting? Your central point, that uploads that preserve filenames are good for search engines, I think is unconnected to which actual tool does the uploading.<br /><br />(I've also written quite extensively about how its currently very difficult to find any images hosted in Picasa Web Albums - external indexing spiders such as the Google Image search one are excluded via the robots.txt, and there is no internal search provided at all). Thomas, I’d already picked up on Robert’s post and hopefully added some clarification both at his blog, and within my own post “ Picasa uses real filenames when uploading – good for indexing“.

Unfortunately I think that there are three distinct things that get associated with the word Picasa:
1) the desktop program – used to organize photos on the PC hard drive, but which is capable of uploading to online services
2) Picasa Web Albums – the online service which offers photo sharing on the web, and is what is normally meant by Picasa when flickr appears in the same sentence
3) other desktop programs produced by the Picasa company (which everyone is very aware is a Google subsidiary) – of which Hello is the only real example.

Your writing has not made it explicit which of the 3 you were referring to, though I think you probably have longest experience of using Hello to do your uploads. Have you any further insights from your experience of using the main Picasa client app to do your uploading, or of using Picasa Web Albums for image hosting? Your central point, that uploads that preserve filenames are good for search engines, I think is unconnected to which actual tool does the uploading.

(I’ve also written quite extensively about how its currently very difficult to find any images hosted in Picasa Web Albums – external indexing spiders such as the Google Image search one are excluded via the robots.txt, and there is no internal search provided at all).

]]> By: Thomas Hawk http://thomashawk.com/2006/08/why-picasa-images-are-indexed-higher.html/comment-page-1#comment-12369 Thomas Hawk Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:20:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1857#comment-12369 Eric. Yep same problem there. Something we may need to work on -- although we have higher priorities at the present than necessarily optimizing for search. But optimizing Zooomr for search should be something that we look at at some point in the future. Eric. Yep same problem there. Something we may need to work on — although we have higher priorities at the present than necessarily optimizing for search. But optimizing Zooomr for search should be something that we look at at some point in the future.

]]> By: Eric Appel http://thomashawk.com/2006/08/why-picasa-images-are-indexed-higher.html/comment-page-1#comment-12370 Eric Appel Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:04:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1857#comment-12370 So now that you host all of your blog images on Zooomr, won't you run into the same problem? Zooomr file names also appear to use numbers instead of titles. Can we expect to see Zooomr fix this? So now that you host all of your blog images on Zooomr, won’t you run into the same problem? Zooomr file names also appear to use numbers instead of titles. Can we expect to see Zooomr fix this?

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