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If you’re anything like me, you’re probably using Google Images at least once a day. Is that plant poison ivy? What’s the difference between shovelhead and hammerhead sharks? What 1960s celebrity haircut do I want to copy when I go to my next hair stylist appointment? Okay, maybe that last one doesn’t apply to everyone.

Recently, Google changed the game. Not only did Google launch Image Search Ads, ads that will appear only on Google Images and allow you to include a thumbnail image alongside your lines of text, but Google has also changed the way you can search for images.

Later today, video sharing giant YouTube will launch a global modification to the user interface design of their video pages – a strategic initiative to increase time-on-site.

The Google-owned company revealed the redesign in January, although some changes were, at the time, still up in the air. While the specific modifications are in the hundreds, the following is a list of the most pertinent:

Facebook’s rise to Internet preeminence received another boost today, as new data from web analytics group compete.com shows that the popular social networking site ousted Yahoo as the second most visited site in the U.S. for the month of January.