Barry Schwartz says, “Recently, we’ve noticed complaints from webmasters that their image search traffic from Google has dropped significantly, specifically from countries like Germany, France and other countries outside of the US. The traffic drop is due to Google releasing the 2013 version of the Google Images design to more countries over the past couple of weeks.

When Google made the change in the United States over three years ago, webmasters saw more than a 60 percent drop in traffic from Google Image search. The same thing is happening now in the new countries that Google pushed out this design to recently.

A Google spokesperson confirmed that they have “recently rolled out the updated UI for Image Search to some other countries.”

Google would not tell us which countries specifically, nor would they tell us why they rolled it out over three years after the US rollout”.

Google rolls out 2013 Image Search design to more countries, webmasters complain of traffic loss

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