{"id":11984,"date":"2010-07-20T17:12:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T16:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/google-testing-new-image-search-interface\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:12:17","slug":"google-testing-new-image-search-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-testing-new-image-search-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Google testing new image search interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Google <\/strong>seems to be testing a radically changed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/\">image search<\/a> user interface<\/strong>. Reports on various websites say that it might have been around for up to a week&#8230; and that it looks a bit like Bing. I just got the new interface this afternoon. And I don&#8217;t use Bing.<\/p>\n<p>The new look page focuses entirely on images, removing all the additional data which was previously displayed under each result. That data isn&#8217;t gone completely, though. It now displays when you <strong>mouseover<\/strong> an image. The page also <strong>automatically loads more results<\/strong> as you scroll, kind of like a Twitter app that loads older messages the further down you go. In all, it&#8217;s an attractive new way of presenting image search results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/07\/google-img-1.png\" alt=\"google-img-1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clicking an image is a different matter, though. This action now loads the source website in an iframe, with a slightly <strong>opaque layer<\/strong> on top of it, and the image highlighted and expanded. There&#8217;s also a section to the right of the page containing the relevant image&#8217;s info. Clicking anywhere in the main part of this page <strong>forces the image source page to load<\/strong>. This part of the new UI experience is less positive &#8211; it feels like the user is expected to know how it works bef0ore using it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/07\/google-img-2.png\" alt=\"google-img-2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Expect this interface to continue to evolve as Google continues its tests. The second-step page, which displays the image in its original location, is in particular need of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google seems to be testing a radically changed image search user interface. Reports on various websites say that it might have been around for up to a week&#8230; and that it looks a bit like Bing. I just got the new interface this afternoon. And I don&#8217;t use Bing. The new look page focuses entirely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-testing-new-image-search-interface\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google testing new image search interface&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2340],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-11984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334861,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions\/334861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=11984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}