Abstract: The present invention proposes a method and a device for improving the relevance of images shown to a user during an image search phase in an indexing engine. The method includes firstly a step of evaluation by a user of the method or the device of the relevance or the irrelevance followed by a step of associating a relevance value with each of the images declared relevant (or irrelevant), creating an influence zone (or influence field) around the image concerned, all these fields then being accumulated. The images finally shown to the user are those having the highest relevance values.