Google Images new layout

As I explain in Imagery's about page, "I started thinking on the project soon after getting a 23 inches monitor and getting irritated by all the space that was being wasted when googling for images." Recently (I'm not sure of the exact date but it can't be more than a month), Google finally upgraded its image searching layout engine. It now uses javascript to place the images liquidly and to (slightly) better apportion screen real-state.

I don't have a screenshot of the old Google Image Search (funny how memoryless the web is as a medium) so I'll use a screenshot of how the current Yahoo Image Search (which still wastes space grandiously, à la old-fashioned Google) looks in my monitor, to contrast it with the new Google Image Search interface. For good (self-promoting) measure, I also throwed in a screenshot of Imagery, which easily displays 80 thumbnails (4 times as more as Google or Yahoo) in the same space.



Anyway, slight though it is, it's a change that does improve user experience noticeably and I'm all nervous and jittery. There's no such thing as a static target.