Does Google consider the URL of an image?

Paul Randall from Yeovil, England asks: “Does Google take into account the URL of an image when searching – eg could domain.com/cats/lolcatz/m.jpg appear in a Google search for ‘lolcatz’?” Spanish subtitles provided by Diego Pérez. Thisvideo is part of a “Grab Bag” series in which Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team, answers questions from webmasters. We’re not currently taking new video questions, so your best bet for getting an answer about webmaster-related search issues is to head to our help forum: www.google.com