Originally Posted by Jdoughs

A search of "Alt Tags" in google produces a front page of results that show informative sites that are explaining what an ALT ATTRIBUTE does and many showing that they are commonly called alt tags incorrectly, so I would imagine, google calls them what they really are. They call it like they see it, and they see that when you search alt tags, you really mean alt attributes

Alt attributes for the image tag.

There is one guy in the serps there near the bottom who has it wrong, some blog or something and he's offering his free advice. Get what ya pay for I suppose.