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Currently, it seems like there is a lot going on in the world of search that is pretty exciting for the typical user. Today I would like to point out a few changes I've noticed and what they might mean for your SEM and SEO efforts.

Visual Search — images seem to be getting more and more important in the search world. I don't know if it's a function of the fact that no one likes to read of if images are being used digitally (say as phone wallpaper) much as they were in print fashion years ago. It's always been a good idea to optimize your images online, say with a file name and alt attribute that describe the content, but with Google's changes to their image search engine it's probably more useful than ever. Also, check out how Bing is displaying images with it's Visual Search feature — this is a Bing search for Pulitzer winning fiction