Google-search – How to change (the business) Google Plus images in Google Search

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I have a Google Plus page for my business. When I type my business name in the Google search box, I can see on the right side a pane with my business details, location, images etc.

I can easily edit the information appears there, but I don't know how I can change the image appears next to GoogleMaps box (see image).

Is that an image which is picked by Google algorithms? Is that related to SEO only? any chance I can control this image and replace it for my business?

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I believe they take the image from either your google my business (previously called google places) or your companies google plus page. With google my business being the first choice.

I do some work for a interior design and architecture company and although the google my business page has 20-30 images on the profile the "main pic" shown in search results always seems to be set by google and rarely changes. One thing i have noticed though is that google will tend to favour using images which its algorithms believe are of an external of a building (i guess they believe this is an image of the external of your office (which if you are an architecture / building etc company it wont necessarily be true as it could be of a project you recently completed.)

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Google Plus – How to Search Public Posts

You can use the "Search" box in Google Plus. It's just to the right of the Stream/Photos/Circles/etc. bar.

https://plus.google.com/s/Ponies

You can further refine the search to just posts (in your circles and public posts) https://plus.google.com/s/Ponies/posts

Don't forget to use "Best of" / "Most recent" per your needs.

Google Search – How to Disable Google Universal Search

I found an elegant solution to this problem using Google Custom Search.

To see the result in action, go to this custom search engine.

To set up your own version, go to google.com/cse and:

click "create a custom search engine"
put whatever you want on the setup page, but use a nonexistent url for the "sites to search" box
click "next" twice (change the look if you like)
click on the link "change the basics" under "next steps"
at the bottom of the "basics" page, check "search the entire web but emphasize included sites"
uncheck "Show automatic thumbnail"
save changes
click on the name of your search engine at the top of the "basics" page to use it.

To use your search in a URL (to replace your existing search engine):

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=000628392187335527771:2-d3w-aefr4&q=searchterms

You'll need to replace the cx variable with the value from your own custom search engine and replace "searchterms" with %s or whatever you usually use in your URL to indicate keyword placement.

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