New
Google Image Search Interface
Long time, ** see. After a long vacation, it's time to get back to the latest news from the
Google world. Last month,
Google tested a new
Image Search Interface and **w
it's been rolled out. It's the first desktop
Interface that drops the landing page and ** longer loads the web pages that included the
Image results. The previous interfaces loaded these pages using iframes more like a courtesy to the third-party websites than to improve the user experience.
Google started to make the iframes less important when it moved them to the background. Then the mobile interfaces for smartphones and tablets came out and they didn't even load the original web pages. The new desktop
Interface is closer to the tablet interface: click an
Image result and use the left/right keyboard arrows to check the other results.
Here's the old
Interface (you may still see it):
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"Instead of sending you over to a whole new page to preview an image, you'll see a preview of the
Image in your
Search results. Once you click on a image, you can quickly flip through the whole set of
Image previews using your keyboard. Your
Search results stay in the panel so you don't lose track of what you were doing; if you want to go back to looking at other
Search results, you can just scroll down and pick up right where you left off. If you want to check out the website where the
Image is hosted, you can click on the photo or use the tools available,"
explains Google.
Obviously, the traffic from
Google Image Search will drop dramatically and webmasters will complain that
Google uses their images and doesn't give anything in return.
Google only hosts
Image thumbnails and loads the original images when you click the thumbnails, so it's **w
an image leecher that hotlinks to other people's images, using their bandwidth without generating page views or ad revenue. It's better for users, but expect to see many sites that stop displaying images when loaded from
Google Image Search or use
other anti-leech tricks.
Finding the right balance between user experience and webmasters' interests is a hard thing to do.
Google **w includes 4 links to the original web page, so you can click the image, the page title, the domain name and the "visit page" button, but I bet most people will click "view original image". Unfortunately,
Google ** longer displays two very important things: the
Image title and a short snippet from the page related to the image. Showing only the title of the page and the domain name is **t e**ugh to determine if the
Image is relevant. Other missing information: the EXIF data and the
Image size.
New Google Image Search Interface