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What'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.

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I 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.

FYI you can still access these options (and more) with the Google Advanced Image Search: https://www.google.com/advanced_image_search

edit: Oh, it no longer has "custom" under the sizes. Hmm.

I 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.

They also had very useful "larger than 4MP", "larger than 8MP", ... options. It was easy to find very high resolution images.

Ah, 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.

Man, 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.

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