Not active for my Google yet, but looking at the article, it seems to be a set of changes they really had to make to keep up with Bing. Bing's UI for image searches is really hands down much better than Google's current way of doing it. I gave up on Bing text searches a while back, but always pull it up for images.
Even if Bing's marketshare never takes off, I look forward to a game of leapfrog between the two. We as end-users will benefit from that.
Google image search is better in one way that I noticed within the first 3 seconds of using the two: You can scroll up and down the results in Google using the up and down arrows. Bing has focus in the search box. You need to click somewhere in the scrollable results viewport to get it to scroll with the cursor keys. This is such a basic, annoying screw-up.
You're right. I never noticed because I always use the mouse scroll wheel for that.
My #1 biggest Bing image search gripe is middle click doesn't work in Chrome for opening in a new tab, yet right click->open in new tab does.
Looks great, but freezes Safari if I scroll down too fast. Probably since it's trying to load and display too many thumbs at once.
It's a good direction but the details don't seem right yet. Increasing the image by 10% on hover doesn't add much detail so I'd remove that. I'd just fade in a white box with the details below the image, instead of having the resize/dropshadow effect.
Since basically the whole page has a mouse effect, it makes me very aware of how I move the mouse and where I rest the cursor.
They could also remove the "Page" index, since that's not useful anymore, but I guess that happens once this rolls out to everybody.
Bing's UI is really hands down much better than Google's new image search UI. In terms of results I don't really find a big difference anymore.
I sometimes resorted to google's image search because it was faster. Dynamic image loading really does take a big toll on performance(at least for me). I wonder why neither Bing nor Google have switched to SilverLight/Flash respectively yet. Maybe they are just waiting for html5?
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It's a good direction but the details don't seem right yet. Increasing the image by 10% on hover doesn't add much detail so I'd remove that. I'd just fade in a white box with the details below the image, instead of having the resize/dropshadow effect.
Since basically the whole page has a mouse effect, it makes me very aware of how I move the mouse and where I rest the cursor.
They could also remove the "Page" index, since that's not useful anymore, but I guess that happens once this rolls out to everybody.
I sometimes resorted to google's image search because it was faster. Dynamic image loading really does take a big toll on performance(at least for me). I wonder why neither Bing nor Google have switched to SilverLight/Flash respectively yet. Maybe they are just waiting for html5?