Google gives image search a new look (screen shots)
by Andy Smith | July 20, 2010 12:08pm PDT | Image 1 of 11
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Google has given its image search a new look Tuesday in hopes of helping people weed through the vast number of images to find what they're seeking. On the main search page, photos are moved closer together to let you see more results on a page and the instant scrolling between pages lets you see up to 1,000 images on a scrolling page.
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@calera Why? Because Google removed words? I think that Bing's web search results look very Google-like. This new look is unique.
@ginjaninja405 "This new look is unique." Please tell me how this is unique.
Do a side by side comparison with Bing Image Search and show me exactly how Google image search is unique.
Do a side by side comparison with Bing Image Search and show me exactly how Google image search is unique.
@ginjaninja405 Did you mean to say "This new look is NOT unique"?
Specifically, Bing already had less white space and the infinite scrolling feature on their first day.
@calera Meaning Bing is way too late to the party! The simple fact is they can do all they want Google has the lock in and still over 70% of Search Market FOREVERRRRZZZZ! HAHA
It's interesting to note that Google is taking good ideas from Bing again.
@Tim Acheson it's also interesting to note that microsoft has taken good ideas from
stacker
netscape
wang
java
apple
... ah, hail, the list is too long...
stacker
netscape
wang
java
apple
... ah, hail, the list is too long...
How can anybody with an IQ greater than their age think this is worth discussing? Steve Jobs has never mentioned it. Linus Torvalds hasn't commented on it. And that snow leopard picture cannot cover up your anti-Apple bias that drips from this piece of editorial snow job. And what about the iPad? I see that you didn't show an image search for that. Afraid that you will find some favorable reviews that contradict the pro-Microsoft tendencies of all you ZDNet hacks?
Ahem, just thought I'd go ahead and get some of the troll bait out of the way early on to save some of y'all a little time.
Ahem, just thought I'd go ahead and get some of the troll bait out of the way early on to save some of y'all a little time.
@Azathoth Hmm... maybe cause the ipad doesn't have nearly 600 million daily users... the new google image search is sweeet! Can't wait to start using it.
PS: plenty of Ipad ads/stories on ZDNet.. who Likes microsoft?
PS: plenty of Ipad ads/stories on ZDNet.. who Likes microsoft?
@Z D
Gotcha!
Gotcha!
"A good composer does not imitate; he steals."-Stravinsky
LOL! It's good to see all the Microsoft supporters come running. I guess they want to say that Google won't give as good of an image search as Bing's image searching "experience". I really don't get it. Google had image search looooong before Bing did, and MS supporters claim google is copying? Get real, people. MS is late to the search game and their "descision" engine "experience" is going to fall flat. It'll probably be revamped at one point again and renamed to "Xbox Live Seach Experience Extreme". You have to wake up and really listen to all the "buzz" words MS has been feeding all of you and stop supporting inferior products. *cough cough* windows *cough cough*
@Toque_3D
You do realize that this is a discussion about Google copying how search works , right? It's not a discussion about whether Google had search or not.
By your logic we should dismiss the iPhone because Apple was late to the phone party. Or has history already been rewritten and has Apple now actually invented the phone? It's so hard to keep up...
I do agree with one of your statements though... " I really don't get it". Yes I agree, you don't.
You do realize that this is a discussion about Google copying how search works , right? It's not a discussion about whether Google had search or not.
By your logic we should dismiss the iPhone because Apple was late to the phone party. Or has history already been rewritten and has Apple now actually invented the phone? It's so hard to keep up...
I do agree with one of your statements though... " I really don't get it". Yes I agree, you don't.
@Toque_3D
actually they're not late to the search game... it's just that they couldn't get anywhere with it. it's had many many many names.
and has lost hundreds of millions of dollars every year. for over a decade.
but balmer said they'll pump billions more into bing until they're a player.
free market at it's best.
actually they're not late to the search game... it's just that they couldn't get anywhere with it. it's had many many many names.
and has lost hundreds of millions of dollars every year. for over a decade.
but balmer said they'll pump billions more into bing until they're a player.
free market at it's best.
I think its horrendous looking. And that is why I dont use Yahoo or Bing because I cant stand the manner in which their results are presented. Now, it doesnt matter I guess. It all looks the same.
But I LOVE how people defend, to the death, something that isnt even their idea or their company (presumably) when someone else doesnt like it. As if we are ALL supposed to like ALL the same things ALL of the time like one great big communist nation! Too much group-think.
But I LOVE how people defend, to the death, something that isnt even their idea or their company (presumably) when someone else doesnt like it. As if we are ALL supposed to like ALL the same things ALL of the time like one great big communist nation! Too much group-think.
it sucks in a million gazillion ways!
1) Images load waaaaaaaaaaaaaay slower than the old format and I'm on a 1 Mbps connection! 80% of America is at a lower speed! I know there are more images to load but you could browse through twice as many images as are displayed on one page in half the time with the old format!
2) How in the world do you scroll up and down?! Page up and page down seemed to be working before!
3) Again, how does this work on the iPhone?! how do you scroll?
4) When you use the browser back and forward buttons to go back to your image results it loads all the images all over again?! Jesus Google, forget what a cache is?!
5) When you click on an image, previously, you would see a small thumbnail at the top in a separate frame and the page would load down below. Now the same happens except a blownup version of the picture covers the entire screen and the only way to get at the website is to close that up first.
Again. Oh my god.
1) Images load waaaaaaaaaaaaaay slower than the old format and I'm on a 1 Mbps connection! 80% of America is at a lower speed! I know there are more images to load but you could browse through twice as many images as are displayed on one page in half the time with the old format!
2) How in the world do you scroll up and down?! Page up and page down seemed to be working before!
3) Again, how does this work on the iPhone?! how do you scroll?
4) When you use the browser back and forward buttons to go back to your image results it loads all the images all over again?! Jesus Google, forget what a cache is?!
5) When you click on an image, previously, you would see a small thumbnail at the top in a separate frame and the page would load down below. Now the same happens except a blownup version of the picture covers the entire screen and the only way to get at the website is to close that up first.
Again. Oh my god.
cause they're copying a lot of other companies right now. Too bad their search is second to Bing when measured by how well it works and Android is a distant second to the iPhone.
I have used dogpile for years.. a far better search engine for images and celeb gossip (girl stuff) IMHO.
Try a little experiment.. do a search for something hacker or anyi dmca with bing.. then try nthe same with google.. hmmm.. filtering by M$ and their "decision" engine methinks.. and since I stopped using anything M$ years ago for those very reasons I can't see much point bothering with their spyware style heavily content filtered "search" engine
Try a little experiment.. do a search for something hacker or anyi dmca with bing.. then try nthe same with google.. hmmm.. filtering by M$ and their "decision" engine methinks.. and since I stopped using anything M$ years ago for those very reasons I can't see much point bothering with their spyware style heavily content filtered "search" engine
I have loved google for nearly 8 years but this is one change that I received with much hostility because it's so BING like. Whoever argues otherwise should simply do a side by side comparison as one person suggested and notice the difference... or should I say the similarity?!
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