Google Image Search Updated; Uses JavaScript
Microsoft’s Live Image Search has always been very sleek with its use of JavaScript. Apparently Google thought so as well, as they’ve started using similar JavaScript themselves. The image search has indeed been updated to mimic some of Microsoft’s effects. The overall change gives a very clean look to how the images are displayed while searching.
Above is the screen shot of the changes. When searching, all the images will be displayed in the first format. However when you hover your mouse over the image, it will then change to look like the second.
If you disable JavaScript on your browser, it brings it back to the old format; which happens to be the same as what it looks like when you hover over it.
Overall Live Image Search still appears to be much sleeker than Google’s. When you click an image, the search results from the previous page will be in a frame on the left, thus allowing easier navigation. It also uses JavaScript to change the size of the frame, and exit out of the image you clicked. It even gives a scratch pad to temporarily save images you might want to look at later. The only downside is JavaScript is required.
All and all Google is improving the look and feel of their image search slowly, but surely. I really look forward to the changes they have in store for us next.
Alex, it’s by far one of the worst Google improvements made ;) The thing is - most of the people who use image searches use it for some special reason, for example to find images of some exact size or from exat website. And what do they get now? Clumsy page with unusable results. You can’t see image sizes, you can’t tell where they come from. Before Google did this change, you were able to find the info in split second, but now you have to mouse over each image. This is one tough and dumb step from Google, sorry Larry ;)