google image search changes coming this year

Google's John Mueller said last night that bigger changes are coming to Google Image search this coming year.   Instead of thinking of how to optimize for images like you have been for the past two decades, you will need to think about image search when these changes role out..   He said image search is going to be bigger in 2019.   He said no longer are people going to just be searching for images to include in their presentations.   Instead, people will be using image search for more transactional, more educational, more search related tasks - unlike before..   It was not clear exactly what he meant except it seems like Google may be doing bigger push towards image search.   Images in general going to be bigger this year.   Think more how people might be searching to find your images.   Says @ JohnMu — Barry Schwartz January 24, 2019.   Again, this does not tell the whole story - so I will try to get more details for you all..   Read more