Google’s New Image Search more like Bing?
Today, Google announced enhancements to their Google Images search page that aim to be: more image-oriented, accurate, and efficient.
Here’s what’s new in this refreshed design of Google Images:
- Dense tiled layout designed to make it easy to look at lots of images at once. We want to get the app out of the way so you can find what you’re really looking for.
- Instant scrolling between pages, without letting you get lost in the images. You can now get up to 1,000 images, all in one scrolling page. And we’ll show small, unobtrusive page numbers so you don’t lose track of where you are.
- Larger thumbnail previews on the results page, designed for modern browsers and high-res screens.
- A hover pane that appears when you mouse over a given thumbnail image, giving you a larger preview, more info about the image and other image-specific features such as “Similar images.”
- Once you click on an image, you’re taken to a new landing page that displays a large image in context, with the website it’s hosted on visible right behind it. Click anywhere outside the image, and you’re right in the original page where you can learn more about the source and context.
- Optimized keyboard navigation for faster scrolling through many pages, taking advantage of standard web keyboard shortcuts such as Page Up / Page Down. It’s all about getting you to the info you need quickly, so you can get on with actually building that treehouse or buying those flowers.
Google notes that the updates are “rolling out in most of their local interfaces worldwide over the next few days.”
I think the new google image search is more like a Bing image search. What do you thing?
Source : Google Blog
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The new Google image results may look very flashy but actually slows a serious image search down. The lack of white space around the images makes looking at them more difficult not easier. Having to hover over an image to see any info about it is much slower than scan reading a page with images and text. When you click an image the resultant page is slower to load and navigate. This is a step backwards in usability for serious searches.