Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Yahoo Image Search now links to Flickr albums

In the great Search Engine Competition, Yahoo recently implemented photos posted by Flickr members in its image results, “ironically catching Yahoo up to Google, Microsoft and Ask.com -- all of which already included Flickr photos in their respective image search engines.” Striving to go one step further, these Yahoo! image results include a hyperlink to the Flickr album in which the image is located.

This is good news for Flickr users, who are in essence obtaining a free inbound link from Yahoo-- something that is sure to drive new traffic to their Flickr albums. But as far as Yahoo is concerned, some responses from the Internet community maintain that for a given search, “Yahoo Images still had plenty of crud.”

Click here for more coverage, as well as a postscript from Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief of SearchEngineLand.com.

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