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Google Image Search Redesigned

Posted on the 26 January 2013 by Geekybrains @sreekanth_br
There is no doubt about the number one rank of Google in search engine market. Still Google is trying to improve it's user interface to display the search results in an easily navigable mode.
For the normal web search,Google didn't changed much the way it displays the results.
But I always disappointed with the navigation of image search results(but not with the results !). You can not easily pass from one image to other . You always have to come back to the all search results page and select another image. This will bite a lot of time and sucks more data.
So because of this I used Bing image search sometimes which is far better than Google in terms of navigation (I am talking about image search!!). Bing will show around 25 image thumbnails on the top of a main image.Also there are some good of options to search for similar images and more sizes of same image.It will also show thumbnail images for related searches recommendation on the same page.

So will Google allow Bing to get more image search visitors like me?

No way ! Here is Google coming with the all new image search user interface. It is not yet released(while writing this article), but they have given the screen shot of the new Google image search in their web masters blog

New image search interface in Google

New Google image search interface


ADVANTAGES OF NEW GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH
  • We can now see a main image along with other image search results as thumbnails.With this we can easily flip from a set of image results.
  • Users can easily navigate from one image to other using keyboard (arrow keys)
  • The url is now click-able(previously it was only visible). 
  • Google removed the iFrame(of image source website) in the background of the image. This will reduces the page loading time and also reduces the load on source website server.
  • We can now directly search for more sizes of an image by clicking "more sizes" button.
with all these options Google is trying to make the image search more convenient for the users. Hope this will reduce our effort while searching for beautiful images from the beautiful web :) Happy Googling :) 

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