Google Images restores old design

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Google Images restores old design

by Brad Linder Feb 21st 2007

A few weeks ago Google went and changed its design for Google images by cleaning up all that annoying extra data on the screen that you don't need, like the image size and the website where it's located. You could still see that information, but only by scrolling your mouse over the image.

Generally, this made Google Images much less useful. If there are multiple versions of the same image available, it's nice to know which one is the largest at a glance, for example. Or if you're looking for images of a rock band, you might want to know which ones come from the band's official web site.

Now, less than a month after rolling out its site redesign, it looks like Google's reverted back to the older, more informative version of Google images. It's nice to see Google reacting to negative response from users, if in fact that's what they're doing. It's always possible this is just a glitch, or that a new interface could be on its way next week.

[via Google Blogoscoped]

Tags: google images, GoogleImages, image search, ImageSearch

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

keeves said 2:44PM on 2-21-2007

I'm actually surprised how long it took them to revert back to this with the initial negative reaction it recieved. (I honestly thought they mite have reverted it back within a day or so).

However, whilst i welcome this change back, i have to admit that having used image search significantly over the past few weeks without all the information, the screen does now begin to look very cluttered!

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