Hands On With the New Google Image Search

Google recently revamped its image search engine to make finding the images you're looking for quicker and easier than ever. The redesigned interface lets you scroll through 1,000 images at once (with larger image previews), and eliminates text on the image search results so you can just focus on the visuals.

Previously when you did an image search, you'd see multiple pages of thumbnails with text showing the file name, dimensions, and a description associated with the image. Now you'll only see a mosaic of tightly packed image results with larger thumbnails and no text. Hovering over an image result will blow up the image, reveal the hidden metadata (for some images), and show a link to search for similar images.

Although you're viewing far more images on one page, it's actually easier and faster to look through them all because of Google's "Instant scrolling" function. Scrolling through a full set of results didn't stall or slow down my pages as the images loaded. You'll still see small page numbers to the left of the results interface to help you keep track of where you are. Google's also transitioning to image ads rather than strictly text ads. You'll find them at the top of the page.

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