Should Google Be Getting More Bing-Like?

When I first saw the new Google images layout, I first thought there was some kind of page error, so I restarted my browser and found that nothing changed. At first glance, all the images grouped so closely and messily together with no file information (no image name or size) is rather confusing. What I dislike most is that clicking on the images with the mouse button to open up the image in a new tab doesn’t work. Instead, I have to right click and scan through the drop down menu for the option, which is a waste of time. I’ll be using Yahoo for image searches until Google fixes this. On the bright side, many pages of images are displayed in one scrolling page, which eliminates the bother of clicking through, though loading so many images at once takes a while even on a moderately speedy connection.

@James

The problem for Google is that Bing, while hardly making a dent in the overall search market, has had huge increases in cetrtain areas, such as image search, travel, local, and shopping. In some of those areas, Bing has had more than 100% growth. this could be bad for Google if left unchecked since these areas are a great source of ad revenue.

Definitely not. Why do the same damn thing that someone else is doing? Shouldn’t they be different from each other for different kind of search experience.

Besides. Google is doing it wrong already…

Google is following bing. This means bing is getting google think about the competition. But overall not good image search page design from google as it doesn’t ease the user experience.

The old design is one of the reasons Google’s image search was so good. The new design is much more difficult to use, slower, and less effective for searching. Why? because in the past you coudl, at a glance, get the info about the image – tell if it was from a location where you might be able to visit and get more info, user the image, etc (whatever it is you’re actually searching for an image for) and you could see the size. Now you need to manually hover over every image to get this same info… takes 3-4 times longer to actually find what you need.

Hate it.

As both a webmaster and a frequent flier in terms of using Google images to get an idea of what it is I am looking for I have to say no, I do not like the change. I have found that it is all Bing like and I don’t use it for a number of reasons. Among them is the way it feels, to me it feels to blah as in plain. In addition I am not a fan of Microsoft products. I have never had real good luck with them from operating systems to yes even the X-Box and X-B-360.
I think if Google continue to mimic Bing that there will be a shift in who is dominating the search market and I don’t believe it will be to Bing either. And that concerns me because my number one search engine used is Google. Google has always seemed to have more relevant search results for me in the past then any other search engine out there.
With that said, I feel I have made my point. Thanks for giving me the chance to state my opinion and have a wonder day!

I am not an idealogic. In fairness, I like Bing more. Search results are very much comparable to Bing. It looks like a trend now a days to bash Microsoft to feel themselves good and also around people. People who like to hate Microsoft does’nt know what it was like to work and program in chipsets and without UI (I know it is not MS invented this) but they make it popular and affordable. Imagine if Apple won, and very few will have the luxury of owning one like Iphone…greedy.

Google is improving its designs.

i like it. Its more time saving and innovative.

I am surprised that people would resist google changing for the better. Almost everyone thinks Bing’s image search format is better. Borrowing someone else’s idea to better one’s own product is bad? All google wants to do is create a better searching experience for it’s users. I liked how google uses a pop up to display the enlarged image. This is very cool as I am interested in pop up codes.

Google should stick to what they’re best at, and that’s simple and highly functional. Bing may look nice but Google wins hands down on search results – isn’t that the whole point?

All the accusations that Google have copied Bing is absolute tish tosh. There have been many websites prior to Bing that utilised the Google search with a background wallpaper feature. Take Gazoomy for example (http://www.gazoomy.com). I think that site is far more innovative, a lot slicker, and can get away with the bling. The layout is lovely with the translucency, and the moveable search bar is quite frankly tip top. Google should sack their team and hire whoever developed Gazoomy.

We very much dislike (hate) the new Google image interface. There was a reason we didn’t use Bing. We thought this was some sort of Firefox plugin update, but are now more bummed to see it is a Google change and not something that can be changed back by disabling a plugin.

We aslo extremely dislike (hate) the left sidebar in search and the fact that we no longer see the number of sites returned in search.

I suppose this could be the time that Dogpile or another search could reappear as people begin to leave Google search and don’t want to use Bing.

I don’t think it matters at all that Google aesthetically looks more and more like Bing every update…as long as its still Google underneath and you get the better search results its no problem!

sucks…Google is focusing more on $$$ than the end user and they did the same with youtube changes recently ending up with a lot of people and the little guy saying it sucks…and it does. So this is 2 for 2 now that they should crash and burn for these stupid changes.