{"id":20410,"date":"2019-10-11T17:34:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T17:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stanventures.com\/search-by-photos-in-local-verticals\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:40:31","slug":"search-by-photos-in-local-verticals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/blog\/search-by-photos-in-local-verticals\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Showing \u2018Search by Photos\u2019 Option in Mobiles Across Selected Local Verticals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has a new option called \u201csearch by photos\u201d boxes on selected local verticals. For now, this feature is only available on mobiles, and it isn\u2019t similar to \u201cinteresting finds\u201d or \u201cdiscover more places,\u201d which are also photo-centric boxes on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanventures.com\/blog\/top-search-engines-list\/\">search engines<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As you can see above, the results are for the search term \u201ctacos near me.\u201d You can see that the \u201csearch by photos\u201d appears below the local pack and other organic results. However, in some cases, the photobox appeared right below the local pack. Each of the images that show up in the photobox shows a star rating and the distance from the user. When users click on any of these photos, they are taken to the respective GMB profiles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there is also an option to open more photos, that will display a page full of images from different listings. Users can then click on the \u201cview list\u201d to get more information and scroll through multiple listings available.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, it should be noted that the \u201csearch by photos\u201d feature is not available across all the local verticals. For example, these photoboxes were missing for searches related to plumbers, architects, and lawyers. This makes it unclear whether Google is simply testing this feature or rolling out a new element for mobile SERP. It\u2019s also unsure whether the feature will be rolled out for the desktop version as well. Sometimes, the listings in the local pack and photobox correspond, and sometimes, they don\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Local business profiles with optimized images outperform the ones that don\u2019t have them. The \u201csearch by photos\u201d feature gives rise to yet another argument of building a complete GMB profile with lots of images. 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