Over the next few days Google is rolling out an update to Google Images which aims to 'match the scope and beauty' of the fast-growing visual web.
Heres Whats New: ● Dense tiled layout designed to make it easy to look at lots of images at once. We want to get the app out of the way so you can find what youre really looking for. ● Instant scrolling between pages, without letting you get lost in the images. You can now get up to 1,000 images, all in one scrolling page. And well show small, unobtrusive page numbers so you dont lose track of where you are. ● 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. ● Once you click on an image, youre taken to a new landing page that displays a large image in context, with the website its hosted on visible right behind it. Click anywhere outside the image, and youre right in the original page where you can learn more about the source and context. ● Optimized keyboard navigation for faster scrolling through many pages, taking advantage of standard web keyboard shortcuts such as Page Up / Page Down. Its all about getting you to the info you need quickly, so you can get on with actually building that treehouse or buying those flowers.
Google is also launching a new ad format called Image Search Ads. These ads appear only on Google Images, and they let you include a thumbnail image alongside your lines of text.