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Can you also tell Google to fix the image search page? The new design is stupid. I prefer the previous design. The new design splits the page vertically, when
by blackrock 7y ago
Can you also tell Google to fix the image search page? The new design is stupid. I prefer the previous design.
The new design splits the page vertically, when you click on a picture. And its purpose, which is quite confusing, is to follow a second track of searches related to that picture.
But that just makes the usage confusing. I want to click on the picture in order to see it in magnification mode, to have it fill the browser window. This was the prior design. It worked perfectly, and allowed me to quickly see the picture I want, in a magnified mode.
But instead, with the new design, it opens the picture on the 2nd split screen, but the picture is practically the same size.
And to make matters worse, some of the pictures, like if they are portrait mode, does not magnify, so it makes it very difficult to see the details of the picture. I’d have to open up the source picture in another tab.
Someone must’ve thought this was a good idea, but to be honest, it sucks.
And also, the split screens with dual scrolling behaviors, is incredibly frustrating to use. Half the time, I’m scrolling on the wrong half of the page.
The image search is now such a frustrating experience, that I try to use other search engines for a better experience.
- bufferoverflow 7y agoWhat's much worse is they removed the precise and custom image size search. It's now impossible to search for a 32x32 icon or a 3200x1800 wallpaper. This dumbing down and feature removal is sad and silly.
- anonytrary 7y agoI didn't notice that. I never used exact dimension searches because more often than not, they eliminate all of the interesting results which I would have been able to crop/resize to my desired dimensions manually. It's better to have some results you can transform than to have no results.
- bufferoverflow 7y agoThey also had very useful "larger than 4MP", "larger than 8MP", ... options. It was easy to find very high resolution images.
- anonytrary 7y agoAh, yes, now I do remember those more useful options. I definitely recall using them once or twice. I can't say I missed it though (seeing as I clearly forgot about it). I guess someone who needs to do it on a daily basis would miss it more.
- papito 7y agoMan, the old Internet was great, wasn't it.... Now we get no proper advanced image search, and a bunch of paid Russian trolls. Good trade.
- joedamore 7y agoI was also really frustrated when they removed the exact size filter under search tools. You can add "imagesize:32x32" to your search query to only show images of a desired size, but I'd still rather see Google bring back the search tool option.
- DamnInteresting 7y agoFYI you can still access these options (and more) with the Google Advanced Image Search: https://www.google.com/advanced_image_search https://www.google.com/advanced_image_search edit: Oh, it no longer has "custom" under the sizes. Hmm.
- harshitaneja 7y agoGoogle was sued by Getty and had to make the change. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after-google-removes-view-image-button-bowing-to-getty/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after...
- capableweb 7y agoThe only thing they would have to change to make Getty happy is that when you click on the image, it takes you to the place where the image was used, instead of the direct url of the image. All the rest of the design choices was Google's, and we rightly blame them for purposefully degrading the experience of using Google Image search.
- spiderfarmer 7y agoAs website owner I vote for this solution. Right now many people don’t even know you can visit the source website.
- capableweb 7y agoI agree, feels more fair towards site owners than hotlinking the image, which been frowned upon on the internet since... At least I started using the internet. What is not fine, is to use that as a reason to completely screw up the rest of the design, when a small change could have been enough.
- Ygg2 7y agoAs an image search user. The number of times I went to the site only to find it either doesn't have the picture or requires a login would just make me mad.
- hanniabu 7y agoYup, the amount of times I've clicked on the image up follow through to the site hasn't changed between either version either. This just makes things more of a hassle.
- buboard 7y agofor every such blunder that a major company does, i want to know what promotion/bonus someone "earned". For example this recent redesign of paypal: https://i.imgur.com/T7Rj3Tq.png https://i.imgur.com/T7Rj3Tq.png
- cpcallen 7y agoLooks like the stylesheet failed to load. (On a lot of websites these days I actually find that improves user experience!)
- buboard 7y agoi have turned off blockers. every profile page is like that, and it says on the page that they ve "updated your settings and profile experience. let us know what you think". kind of agree with you about ux though its probably a blunder that they ll fix soon, but one would expect much better from billion dollar companies
- GhettoMaestro 7y agoThis issue is isolated to you. I use PayPal multiple times per day. It is working fine right now.
- chrisoverzero 7y agoIs this a joke? It’s not a redesign. You must be ad-blocking or otherwise failing to load the stylesheet.
- buboard 7y agoyandex image search is way better anyway
- hudvin 7y agoSmall self-promotions: We are working on image search engine - https://khumbu.im https://khumbu.im, demo (MVP stage)https://app.khumbu.im/search/5dff72e66483e25b40e0222e https://app.khumbu.im/search/5dff72e66483e25b40e0222e . We use DL to understand content of images and provide better search results. Soon we are going to add face recognition, improve object detection and semantic analysis.
- derda 7y agoThere is a chrome extension that brings back the "view original image" fucntionality. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhcelnjdmblfmjabdeclccemkghjk https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhce...
- simias 7y agoI feel your pain, I mostly use duckduckgo these days so I'm not exposed to this behaviour too often but sometimes I don't find what I'm looking for and check Google instead. It's really frustrating.