Over the next several days, Google will be launching its new image search interface, which boasts large embedded image previews, faster results, and does away with opening a new window upon clicking an image. Google's associate project manager Hongyi Li describes the user experience as seeing "image results displayed in an inline panel so it's faster, more beautiful, and more reliable. You will be able to quickly flip through a set of images by using the keyboard." With the larger image preview right on the search page (and not having to load the source page right away in the background), user bandwidth will also be spared and image searching can become faster and more efficient.
Known for its creative home pages and user-friendly design, Google Images is an incredibly popular site as it is. With over one billion views per day, this is good news for website owners; according to Google's internal testing results, the amount of clicking-through to the host websites with the new interface is significantly higher than when using the old Google Images. There are more places to click through to access the hosting website, and a new button also linking to the hosting website is present. Whether or not hosting sites see an increase in hits from his new interface has yet to be seen, but Li is confident that the new Google Images "speeds up the experience for users, reduces the load on the source website's servers, and improves the accuracy of webmaster metrics such as pageviews."
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