How Do I Add Pictures To Google Images?

Posted by jerry as Internet Promotion

There is no obvious way to add images to the Google Image Search for the beginner. Google Images search results come from the pictures that Google’s web crawlers find on the Internet. To get an image included in GIS, you will need to:

1. Find a place to host the image, such as photobucket
2. Place a link to the photo on a web site using the <img> tag.

Alternatively, images can be uploaded to a blogspot or wordpress blog when writing a page or a post by using the “add an image”.

Additional suggestions to allow GIS to properly categorize your images:

• Label the picture with a caption.
• Use the “alt” phrase in the <img> tag
• Name image file to relate to it’s contents.  i.e., pictures-of-lilies.jpg vs. DSC001.jpg

Getting Google to crawl your site is another trick.

More on why Google will probably not buy Sprint

Posted by jerry as Uncategorized

So, I thought of a few more issues with this.  The report that prompted the acquisition rumors of Sprint, notes a cancelled partnership with ClearWire.  Why would Sprint back out?  Google is going to buy them, of course. 

Well, not quite.  They may well back out because they were being ACQUIRED, but not necessarily by Google.  BT apparently has it’s sights set on Sprint as well.  So, it’s possible that the source of the rumor is a tie up between BT and Sprint. 

At the very least, this is likely to result in a bidding war for Sprint between Google and BT.  In that event, the $50B that I cited below is probably more like $55B or $60B.  That just makes the deal much less likely to go in Google’s favor.