Google is adding licensing information to Google Images

Sunday 30 August 2020, 14:41 by Elja Trum | 4,273 views | 1 comment

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Google Images can be used to quickly find photos. But it isn't so easy to find the photographer behind the photo. Google is now doing its best to add this information, but it needs your help.

You do need to add licensing information to your photos, though. Otherwise, Google obviously can't show them in the search results.

Google reads this information from the IPTC metadata or from extra information (structured data) that you add to the page where the photo appears.

For example, you can use Photoshop or Lightroom to add IPTC information to your photos. This is probably the simplest way for most photographers.

The most important information to add is which licensing options apply to the photo and the link to a website where a licence for that photo can be purchased.

The licensing information is not shown yet. The feature is still in Beta. But you can already start adding the correct IPTC information to your images, so it will work straight away when the feature becomes available.

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