Wouldn’t you know it. I’ve been working on slides for my presentations at the Southern African Online Meeting the beginning of August. I’m doing one half day workshop on evaluation and another half day on non-textual searching. So I’ve been looking at lots of image databases and search engines. Lots of color (or, colour), lots of interesting sites. Just as I was wrapping this up, Google up and changed how it’s doing images. At least I got a week’s notice this time! Sometimes things change just as I’m doing a presentation, which is seriously annoying, but comes with the search engine territory.

Google Images now has ads at the top of the results page and is putting some search facets over on the lefthand side of the screen. I’ve seen some commentary about Google Images now looking more like Bing Image search, but although the idea of lefthand navigation is the same, the details are different. And Bing has no ads.

Hope to see friends from Southern African Online Users Group in Pretoria the first week of August!