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what the hell happened google images! it used to be GREAT!!!! google is the only search engine i use! now its ruined. i hate having to scroll forever, pictures take to long to load, it looks sloppy, hard to see all the pictures are cramed on the page the orginal was clear and structured and provided infomation under the picture, now i have to hover over it? is google trying to make customers go elsewhere? there was NOTHING WRONG with the orginal!!!!! if it aint broke dont fix it!!!!! please give us the option to save the orginal version as a preset! until that i will no longer be using google images. goodbye google hello alta vista and yahoo

Googles new image results format is terrible ,it takes ages to load ,it looks cramped and crowded.you are unable to change it back;the switch to the basic version dosn't work for more than one search.

Thanks for the article, Chris.

No i don't like it.

It's bad functional web design, actually, which doesn't take into account the latency inherent in loading so many images on one page (scrolling ability aside). Folks with slower systems (and yes there are still plenty of them out there), and even our fast systems in the office here, have a far less snappy experience now finding, viewing and otherwise dealing with the image search results.

Another facet is that implementing rollovers and other auxiliary interface aspects directly on this now performance-bloated page slows things down further and clutters the interface itself horribly. The efficient and smartly simple design previously in place worked very well and allowed for a fair amount of information at a glance. Paging - N at a time per page - is always a preferable model for a data driven display interface, imo and a better use of resources.

Lastly, each of these features are very very Bing-like and, speaking objectively, they are things i feel make Bing a much less enjoyable and functional interface to use. It's very disappointing to see Google going down this road. They should, at least, have some obvious place to set a preference for this mode, so that those who don't care for it, or who want to actually get some work done, can configure the system for that.

So, no i don't like it and, like the other person here, will (sadly) use other search tools now.

Thanks for this forum,

Kim Sajn
Lead Multimedia Systems Developer
3M Digital Signage
Bainbridge Island, Wa

No, they are not improving anything at all; au contraire, they are making it worse. At least they could give us the option to choose the design we want.

Google was so much better than Bing. They shouldn't try to imitate an inferior search engine like Bing or Yahoo. I went to do an image search a couple of days ago, and noticed the change and hoped it was a glitch, but feared that Google had lost their minds and decided to be like Bing.
I really hope that they come back to their senses and put their image search back the way it was... It used to be my favorite image search engine, but if they keep it like Bing, then I will probably find a different search engine for images.

Many politicians learned early on that screwing with Social Security got them voted out of office; now known as the 'Third rail in politics'. Touch it and you die. I am thinking that the marketing and engineering folks at Google might learn the from this lesson?

Google changed Images and News and I don't like either. It's like designing a new phone with the buttons in different places.

We're used to the old interface. Why change it?

The reason Google has the market share is because of content. If Bing is gaining in certain areas, Google should work the algo, not paint the UI

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.

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.

@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.