Looks like Google's taking a page right out of Facebook's "Internet of things" playbook. This past Wednesday, Hongyi Li, Big G's Associate Product Manager, announced on the official Webmaster Central Blog that Google Images was getting a much-needed makeover designed to enhance the user experience.
According to the post, when people used the old-school version of Google Images, their inability to browse quickly and effortlessly was a major turn-off. To find out more about an image, the original interface forced users to click through to a separate page that displayed the enlarged image along with its corresponding metadata.
If you've used Google Images before – and most of you have, I'm sure – you likely frustrated quickly with this format and abandoned it a long time ago. We've grown accustomed to a shiny, slick, intuitive web – and Google Images has become an old clunker in desperate need of a tune-up.
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