Why does google continue to try and change things that work perfectly?????
WHY DAMMIT!
I mean do they REALLY think Bing is going to give them a run for their money?
Remember a few months ago when they changed the google search page to have “themes?”
Yeah THAT was a great idea… awesome.
I can only hope that enough people complain AGAIN so they change the image search back to the original search that wasn’t so damn CUTE but actually WORKED!
Now I have to hover over a picture to see the damn resolution… WHY Google WHY??
And then when I DO find one after several hovering sessions… and I click on it… I’m presented with a cute little pop-up type image that hovers over the damn original page.
Google… I guess you don’t know this. I’m shocked actually… but here’s the reason people like to use Google.
It’s not because the search results are far superior, although they often are.
It’s not because the graphic on the homepage is stellar, although when you do the contests and have unique “Google” graphics for special occasions it IS neat.
It’s BECAUSE… now listen carefully… it’s EASY! It’s SIMPLE! There’s not a million ads going on next to the damn search bar. THAT is why people use Google.
People like EASY… people like SIMPLE!
QUIT COMPLICATING THINGS THAT ALREADY WORK!
Sincerely,
Everyone who liked the image search feature the way it was before. (Which is likely everyone on the planet)
Yeah, the new Google image search blows.
I mean, Google should be keeping their own brand image, and not adopting other Bing’s brand image.
Is Google trying to make people use Bing?
I don’t understand.
The new Google Image search sucks, it’s slow, it doesn’t work right.
I hate it.
Google just gets worse and worse.
There’s got to be a way to go back to the old version. This new setup is unusable to me.
It’s time to start complaining.
I just found this out today as well. Is there a “keep it the old way” button?
So true, I have dial up and google search is the best place to get images. Just type it in and bam, page after pasge, and they load quickly. Well up until now. Now it sucks! I have no chance of finding any image, it takes forever and then i get some stupid window, wtf!!!!, It’s retarded, completely useless.
Glad to see i’m not the only one that hates the new image search. I found this post out of frustration by searching: “The New Google Image Search SUCKS” into google.
This new method actually makes searching for images slower, complicated and actually giving less information. They should at least add an option to revert back to the older search
I found today that there is a way to change the image search back to the old way with a kind of work around.
Basically you have to disable java for google image search… I’ll post up the link for instructions now.
Well never mind, it didn’t work… it was an outdated post.
You can disable scripting if you use Firefox with the noscript add on. that gives you the old image search.
However, google really need to fix this (ie remove it). It is bad beyond believe. It is slow and less informative. If it doesn’t change, I will – to a different search engine.
Google seem to be losing their touch.
Yeah, I use noscript in Firefox to revert back permanently to some king of older, useable state.
Previously, I used Google image search by default. This terrible, terrible new version, forced me to look at alternatives which I wouldn’t have done before.
I just can’t see the logic in something like this. Have they been infiltrated by a Microsoft employee who persuaded them this would be a good idea?
So Google… in their infinite wisdom… has again decided what’s best for us… without asking or listening. Several weeks ago they launched their forced wallpaper backgrounds and when everyone immediately started complaining and going elsewhere… only then did they gave us an option not to use it.
Now they have given us this (forced) blog-esq, bottomless pit, image search that is nowhere as neat and tidy as the (page at a time) engine that helped them to draw such a large following to begin with. I personally hate “blog” type formats as they cause too much scrolling, clutter and wasted use of RAM. This looks like it was designed by someone who didn’t put much time or thought into the needs of others and obviously grew up using the bottomless pit of “blogging”… instead of learning how to write source codes for HTML. HEY… If they can give me an option to permanently turn off “SafeSearch” then they should be able to put in a simple command line that allows me a default to the “basic version”. I don’t even write source codes and I could figure that one out in less than 30 minutes.
Honestly… how many websites would any of us revisit if say Ebay, YouTube, NewEgg, ect… were laid out like this?
I keep seeing lazy thought patterns on both the Internet, Hollywood television/movies, ect… and wonder if I’m just doomed to exist in a decaying world full of egos without ears.
Meanwhile… I’ll start using “Imagery” @ http://elzr.com/imagery . It seems like a usable alternative and I’ve actually found more stuff on it than on Google. I would never have found them if not for this latest blonder from Goop-L so… keep up the good work of pushing a lot of us in a different direction!
I believe that the Big ‘G’ could easily become the next AOL very quickly if they don’t start listening and learning.
The only way to truly stop them is to go somewhere else… they count their hits every day!
if you scroll all the way down of the 14 pages of crappy image searching, there is an option to “Go back to basic version”
Wow there are people who think it sux too. awesomeness.
Actually, the “Switch to basic version” link at the bottom doesn’t return everything to the old way. The images a once again broken into actual page groups, but clicking on an image still causes it to load the entire page and put up that horrible, unresponsive floating window on top of the web page.
The image window that pops up when you click on a thumbnail is often unresponsive. I often feel I must click on the X in the upper right multiple times, but in reality it’s just taking about 2 seconds for the window to go away when it is closed. 2 seconds is far too long to wait when browsing through many images. This happens on multiple machines, multiple flavors of Windows.
The entire new interface feels clunky. Viewing a larger version of the image requires loading the entire source page when I usually want just the opposite — to inspect an image before taking the time and bandwidth to load an entire page.
Loading page, after page, after page of images on a single web page is also inferior to the old image search. Instead of having the images broken up into manageable page groups, they’re all in one huge linear list that must be scrolled through. Clicking buttons to browse forward and backwards a page at a time is far superior to holding and dragging the scroll bar out of necessity. This is particularly not fun on laptops.
Completely agreed! It’s SUCKS!!!
Ye, I am kind of late, but, my question was, how do you go to the next page of images with the new google image search?