
Google is launching a revamped version of Google Image Search, which starts rolling out to users today.
The announcement was delivered by Marissa Mayer, Google’s (Google) vice president of search products and user experience, here at a press conference at the company’s offices in San Francisco. In a colorful room filled with journalists, Mayer and her team dived into the current technology underlying Google Image Search, but quickly turned their attention towards an array of new features that will greet searchers starting today.
the revamped version of Google Image Search. The new Google Images is a far more visual interface. Instead of lines of images with text, Google Image Search results now display larger thumbnails with very little text through a hover effect. Text information such as file names, file size and URL are now included when you hover over an image.
The landing page has also been massively revamped. The familiar Google Images frames have been removed in favor of displaying a full size image on top of the destination website. Once you close the image, you are taken to the actual destination page, rather than a Google-framed website.
Finally, Google has announced a product for advertisers: Google Image Search Ads, a new image-based ad format for Image Search. In its Q&A session, Google stated that there will be a premium for Google Image Search ads — not surprisingly, they will cost more than text ads.
The revamped version of Image Search has already started its rollout and will complete by the end of the week. This update will only be available on “modern browsers” at the onset, specifically Chrome (Chrome), Safari (Safari), Firefox (Firefox) 3.0 and up, IE7 and IE8.
source: mashable.com/2010/07/20/google-images