New UI for Google Image Search

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.

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?

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.

About time!

I do wonder how this will affect CoolIris though which I really liked but will have a hard time justifying using now.

I'm not as worried about the UI as much as I am worried about '404' errors, which are pretty common.

Still loads results in a frame. So annoying.