Dear Google: You're beginning to get annoying!

[Rrose Selavy]

Seems it's browser version dependent as I still it on IE8 but no longer with my default browser (Avant) which I may have changed version lately.

 

[This is The End]

There's a button on the left (at the bottom of the sidebar) where you can turn on the pixel size of the picture in the preview thumbnails. But, yeah, the new search is annoying. Mostly because it seems to be flash-based, and on my Mac with Safari quite often slows down tremendously.

Nice, now if only they add the option to show file size as well. That would make the new image search just perfect!

Yes, at the bottom of an Image Search page there is a link to the Basic Version. Google is indeed getting annoying with their sudden unannounced interface changes. They should know by now that changing what people have come to love about them isn't going to get them more popular.

WoW Thanks!! Not sure how I missed that (<----that's a joke, since the new image search page is about a mile long, I never saw the bottom, lol.)

Are you kidding. That's one of the few improvements because you can better see what you are getting with less wasted window opening.

You need a bigger monitor! Stop browsing with a cellphone! (JK, I think the new setup is nice too, just lacking file size, dimensions (though I was just told how to show those), and it needs to have better paging. (Loading 33 "pages" on one page is just insane, what about people that are still on dial-up?).

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Anyone know how to get/keep the new image search results function?

For those that have the old Google image search by default and want it to always be the new one, would bookmarking this link work (the search entry box should be a bit down on the right side)?

http://www.google.com/landing/imagesearch/


For those that have the new Google image search by default and want it to always be the old one, I tried adding a blank (null) entry into the link that "Switch to basic version" give you. Unfortunately, having just a blank entry reverts back to your default.

It only works if you leave a search query in the link. First I tried to use a (hopefully) innocent term to the link. This left unwanted results to all the terms I tried (dog*, cat, even just single characters like A or 1).

So I decided to leave the search term as something that would have no results (a random string of Xs and Qs, qqxqxxqxqxqxqqqxxxq).

So I just bookmark this link** as my Google Image Search. I then replace the entry with what I want to search for. Now I have old style Image Search at a single click, instead of having to wait for that huge list of pictures to load so I can click a link at the bottom.


*Testing around trying to make the image search stay one way or the other I thought a safe search word to test with would be "Dog". The 9th image on Google for Dog (currently) is someone showing how to skin and prepare a dog for dinner!! I am so mad at you Google!! I wont get that picture out of my head for weeks. I wonder how many people per day put "Dog" into the image search expecting to see a variety of Dogs.... and then.... surprise!

**I recommend using your own string of Qs and Xs or some wisenheimer will add a picture of no telling what to the internet with that string as the title!

 

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Oddly enough, the Dog incident from my above post, only happens in the New image search. When I search for Dog in the old image search that picture is no where to be found (I checked several pages deep).

So, for some reason, Old and New search give different results for the exact same terms. (Yes I double checked to make sure "Safe Search Preferences" were the same on both, so it's not that causing the difference.)

 

[Babbylonian]

Loading 33 "pages" on one page is just insane, what about people that are still on dial-up?

Is that another browser-dependent feature/problem? When I do an image search in Firefox (3.6.8), it loads images as I scroll down the page. I can see, though, that it could be a problem scrolling all the way to the bottom in a browser operating in a low-memory environment if every image stays loaded.

 

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Is that another browser-dependent feature/problem? When I do an image search in Firefox (3.6.8), it loads images as I scroll down the page. I can see, though, that it could be a problem scrolling all the way to the bottom in a browser operating in a low-memory environment if every image stays loaded.

You're right, Firefox 3.6.3 here. It loads the first "page". Then it lags for a few seconds as the rest (30 to 40) load blank. It immediately loads the next couple "pages" even if i don't do anything. Then when I scroll to the bottom, it loads all of them, no matter how fast I scroll.

Sounds like a nightmare for a dial-up machine with low-memory.

 

[steve s]

It's apparently browser-dependent. I was wondering what everyone was complaining about because I hadn't noticed any change. (I'm using Firefox 3.6.8) So I did a search using Internet Explorer and I get the new style that you're all complaining about.

Hotmail is pulling the same ********. Instead of logging me straight onto my mail account, it goes to a sort of front page with ads and general MSN stuff, and a small link that takes me to my hotmail account

There's a way to change that somewhere in the preferences. I use Hotmail and it takes me right to my inbox.

Steve S

 

[Almo]

I don't like the fade-in on the options at the top of the main page. If I know I want to click one of them, I have to wait for it to show up.

 

[GrouchoMarxist]

Hotmail is pulling the same ********. Instead of logging me straight onto my mail account, it goes to a sort of front page with ads and general MSN stuff, and a small link that takes me to my hotmail account.

There's a way to change that somewhere in the preferences. I use Hotmail and it takes me right to my inbox.

Steve S

Options - "More Options..." - "Windows Live Home Settings" (the last link under "Customize your mail").

 

[KirinDave]

Oh, I can fix this thread!

Dear Google, you're beginning to get annoying as you increasingly slide from “Big Company Trying Its Best To Do The Right Thing For Itself AND The Public” to “Big Company Trying To Maximize Ad Revenues.”

We're disappointed in: your soft policy on China; your reversal of free and open phones as a product; your refusal to take a harder stand on companies destroying Android with “carrier modifications”; your unasked-for-and-failed collusion with the phone carriers to destroy the future of net neutrality on mobile; and the slow dissolution of your corporate culture into the same kind of nonsense that Microsoft engages in.

Truly Google, you had such high hopes. It's sad that you've decided to take the easy way out and grow rather than try and be the poster child for this generation and its “don't-be-evil capitalism” mentality.

 

[Ron_Tomkins]

Oh, I can fix this thread!

Dear Google, you're beginning to get annoying as you increasingly slide from “Big Company Trying Its Best To Do The Right Thing For Itself AND The Public” to “Big Company Trying To Maximize Ad Revenues.”

We're disappointed in: your soft policy on China; your reversal of free and open phones as a product; your refusal to take a harder stand on companies destroying Android with “carrier modifications”; your unasked-for-and-failed collusion with the phone carriers to destroy the future of net neutrality on mobile; and the slow dissolution of your corporate culture into the same kind of nonsense that Microsoft engages in.

Truly Google, you had such high hopes. It's sad that you've decided to take the easy way out and grow rather than try and be the poster child for this generation and its “don't-be-evil capitalism” mentality.

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