July Google Becoming Bing?
July 23, 2010
It seems that Google isn’t immune to adopting good ideas when it sees them in other places. Reading Google Positively Bing-Like With New Image Search Capabilities we see they’ve updated their search technology to view over 1000 images on each page. It shows that even Google knows when they need to change and keep moving ahead and it shows that they’re not immune to influences from the likes of Microsoft.
There are other noteworthy changes and these include increasing the density of the search results page and the ability to get a bigger preview of an image by hovering a mouse over it.
Of course no changes would be complete without some kind of advertising friendly features as well. Hence the new image format called Google Search Ads. Still the Microsoft influence makes us wonder whatever happened to innovation at Google? Strange for a company where searches are the lifeblood.
I don’t like the endless page “thing”. Latency remains an issue with certain network connections. How about a button to reclaim the “old” image search. Better yet, do something original.
Stephen E Arnold, July 23, 2010
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