After nine years of more or less significant improvements, Google Images is ready to feel pretty again and because of that, the good people working on it have prepared and already began to roll out a redesigned version that's supposed to "match the scope and beauty of this fast-growing visual web."
One of the most obvious changes made is the introduction of a tile layout which enables more images to be displayed on a results page. And speaking of pages, there's also the instant scrolling feature which makes going though the pictures found a lot faster as you can have up to 1,000 pictures on one page.
Other tweaks and modifications made include:
- Larger thumbnail previews on the results page, designed for modern browsers and high-res screens.
- A hover pane that appears when you mouse over a given thumbnail image, giving you a larger preview, more info about the image and other image-specific features such as “Similar images.”
- A new landing page that displays a large image in context, with the website it's hosted on visible right behind it.
- Optimized keyboard navigation for faster scrolling through many pages, taking advantage of standard web keyboard shortcuts such as Page Up / Page Down.
The new and improved Google Images should already be accessible to English users and will be available globally in the coming days.
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