Search engine giant Google has recently revealed that Google images receives one billion page views each day.

This staggering figure was announced just as Google publicised a major revamp of its image search facility.

It is thought that there are now over 10 billion pictures that are stored on the Google image search database, which only housed 250 million photographs when it launched in 2001.

With images being an ever popular content that is regularly searched for the on the internet, Google has made clear its intentions to create a more intuitive search facility built with its users in mind.

Google is now able to store up to 1000 images on a page, allowing the end user to scroll through them at leisure, without prompting them to click in and out.

Similarly, users are now able to view a thumbnail preview of an image whilst hovering over it, use keyboard shortcuts for faster scrolling and remain undisturbed by advertisements alongside many other site improvements.

With these changes, it is hoped that Google images will retain its popularity.

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