Google Makes Picasa Web Albums Searchable

Writing 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.

Of course, Flickr is the more popular of the two and photos uploaded at Flickr have always done well in the search engines. I expect that photos uploaded to Picasa will start doing well as well. I also expect that Google’s algorithms will favor Picasa over Flickr. Because of Google Universal, still in beta, you can bet that photos on Picasa will start showing up in search results at Google. You’ll have to be sure to make your images public, otherwise they won’t be searchable.

Category: Photo Optimization, SEO

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