Google is in the process of rolling out a brand new UI for its Google Images product. Some users already have access to the new UI which sees images ordered by image size, information on each only available on hover (rather than underneath) and a generally cleaner look and feel. The new Google Images also incorporates advertising not previously included giving businesses the opportunity to reach hundreds of million of new users.
Do you see it yet?
After:
Before:
Not that I’d really noticed the clutter before, but it’s a big improvement now that it’s gone. Nice.
The interface changes are cool, specially when you do not need to click “next” while searching for an image. Quick scroll, with auto loading of images. “Add it to the post!” :-)
Currently available for .com users only!
hmm.. copying Bing?
sure why not? do you suggest if microsoft for once did something original no one could copy them? you do realize bing pretty much is a spin off of google search? which is a spin off of Archie, which is a spin off of arpanet’s indexing system, which is an spin off of analog indexing system. Buddy, originality is dead, we are in an era of creativity rearrangement
It looks extremely messy, imo.
The touted “cleaner look and feel” is only clean because they cleaned out lots of very useful information, like the URL, Size and text snippet that you must now hover to each picture individually (with a short delay!) to see. That information was a key element in doing a serious search, providing contextual cues to the user that guided the choice of which image to open. It will be sorely missed.
As I recall, Google already tried to remove the context a while back then put it back in after users protested (I know I did). I sure hope they do the same now!
Nathan is right, the new image search interface is slick if you have time to lose and you don’t give a damn about the actual quality (size, web source ecc) of the images. But of course this is the same as in gmail where you can not sort mail by sender, date, subject ecc and you have to rely on search functions. The same goes here, you have a useless bunch of images, refine the search with the tools on the left… not so smart IMO.
And BTW wasn’t it useful when you had “other results from this site”? Search for similar images is quite useless in my experience…
the people above who like it have not done serious searches of thousands of images. this is much slower. a waste of time. they took a good system and sabotaged their own product.yuck. very foolish.