Google Image Search Lets You Save Images For Later With Stars

Google brings back starring for saving image search results to your photo collections.

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Google announced you can now save images to your saved images collection to see them later or save them to your collections.

This feature works across across all major browsers on both Android and iOS, and is rolling out to US searchers who are logged into their Google account.

Just search in Google Image search, click on the image, and then click on the star icon and the word Save, and it will then save it to your collection:

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Then you can view your saved images and organize them in collections:

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This reminds me of Google’s starred results from back in 2000, which replaced SearchWiki. Starred results are no longer around, but Google does let you bookmark local results with a star.

Postscript: The original version of this story said the feature was available on desktop, but the desktop capability launched later on March 28, 2015.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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