Google's John Mueller said this morning in a webmaster hangout at the 20:55 mark that Google Image search does not index and rank images from CSS background code. He said if you want your images ...

Google Theoretically Dislikes Hidden Links But… Regarding the footer links hidden with CSS, Mueller expressed that it’s not necessarily something the Google web spam team would be concerned about.

Implications for Site Auditing. I don’t know how many search marketing professionals check how images are displayed, via regular HTML image tags or CSS background images, but this may be yet ...

John Mueller said on Twitter "last I checked, we don't use CSS background images for image search." John said this also back in January 2018 when he said Google Image search does not index and ...

Google announced they’ve updated their webmaster guidelines to specifically note that blocking your CSS or JavaScript files may have a negative impact on your indexing and search rankings in ...

The document used to say “Google parses the HTML of your pages to index images, but doesn’t index CSS images.” It now reads: “Using semantic HTML markup helps crawlers find and process images.

Search for: July 1, 2025. Render ... He freely admits that this is far from being a complete HTML rendering engine, in that while it parses and renders HTML and CSS with JPEG and PNG image support ...

Shares of Google-parent Alphabet fell more than 3% in early trading Monday after a report sparked concerns that its core search engine could lose market share to AI-powered rivals, including ...