Google has released an upgraded, redesigned, and simplified version of their Google Images Search yesterday. This new design provides a dense tiled layout which let you look at lot of images at once. It also provides you with instant scrolling between pages letting you to view over 1,000 images only in single scrolling page.
For those who don’t know, the Google Images Search was built in the year 2001 and in the same year they indexed around 250 million images. By the 2005, they had indexed over 1 billion images. And today, they have a massive index of over 10 billion images.
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Google Images Search – Whats New
- 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.” - New Landing Page
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 is also launching a new ad format called Image Search Ads for the Google advertisers. These ads will appear only on Google Images and also let you include a thumbnail image alongside the advertisement text.