I am so sick of the news on this blog being, on average, a week old. Its my fault. I let these tabs build and build and build, and I don’t have time to write because I’m too busy amassing tabs, and when I finally do write something, it’s a week old. Dammit! I am so not doing this anymore. I hate missing news, but it is beyond stupid to have late and irellevant news because you don’t want to miss anything.
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Google has done a terribly unpopular thing, redesigning Google Images so that it presents no new information, no new features, just increases the white space. It could be one of the worst redesigns I’ve ever seen.
The new Google Images is identical to the old one, except all the text that used to appear on the page, save the title of the image, is hidden, and only appears when your mouse is near the image
Many people have noticed that Google Image Search was given a "facelift" — though I think that would be giving it way too much credit. Images show less meta data by default, and mousing over an image brings up more information that might be helpful.
Images are bottom aligned, and each "cell" seems to be [...]
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Search Engine Land points to a Philipp Lenssen post on a design change for Google Images. They’ve removed a lot of the information that used to appear alongside each image, and instead show just basic information when you mouse-over any image.
It’s certainly a sleeker interface and now looks a lot like Windows Live Image Search