GOOGLE IMAGES R.I.P-hello BING

[aerohead]

I've struggled for hours now with GOOGLE Images.They've completely destroyed their service.
I went over to BING IMAGES,it works like GOOGLE used to and it's lightning-fast.

[Arragonis]

I'm yet to have a problem with Google images. Bing seems to have the same results but no real advantage. Google can sometimes be flakey but then again so can all the other ones too.

What was your issue ?

[SVOboy]

I've found this image to be representative of my feelings towards the two sites in general:



However, as far as images are concerned, I don't really see how there's any difference, except that I like some of google's features such as face-finding, etc etc.

What's the issue?

[KamperBob]

I agree with others. What's your beef, Phil?

I use 3G-dialup at home via my cell phone. So far the new format seems to make my life better. It seems smart enough to adapt to my screen size, populate one screenful first, and starts downloading another in the background. As I scroll down the page and get to others it starts to download them. It also seem to make better use of my screen size (less gaps, more thumbnails). So my experience has been positive so far. I'm sure there are down sides and would like to hear more about that. We often don't appreciate how much each others' web experiences differ from our own, which we tend to get very used to.

Cheers
KB

[dcb]

It sounds like google completely redid their user interface and aerohead liked the old interface (which was bing-like, and much simpler probably)

[Arragonis]

I was seeing only the old one but I see it is on google.com only. It seems OK but it would be good to switch to the old one by choice.

[Laurentiu]

Originally Posted by Arragonis

I was seeing only the old one but I see it is on google.com only. It seems OK but it would be good to switch to the old one by choice.

+1

You can go back to the old style of searching but unfortunately there seems to be no way to remember that setting.....so, have to do it every time !

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by Arragonis

I'm yet to have a problem with Google images. Bing seems to have the same results but no real advantage. Google can sometimes be flakey but then again so can all the other ones too.

What was your issue ?

On this computer,with GOOGLE,any search word would land you on 'page 23'.
After much scrolling and much wasted time you could work back to page-1.
Then,if you perused any particular photo,it was impossible to get back to the page you left,requiring a complete repeat preformance.
BING performed as GOOGLE used to.
Perhaps it's only my experience.

[Laurentiu]

There are temporary fixes "aerohead", you can do this:

do a google image search > go all the way down and you'll find "Switch to basic version" , press that > now it's back to normal. Save the url of that search, make a bookmark of it and next time when you search for images, start from there.
I know it's not permanent and not as easy as before but so far after I've searched for quite a while myself for fixes, that's all I found.
I hope Google realizes they've made it hard for lotsa people and offer some permanent way of reverting to the old image search for those who like that more...
I'm sure that after all the messages left on google forum and other sites they will do something unless they want to lose a big chunk of their business.

[Arragonis]

Originally Posted by Laurentiu

Fix...

I'm going to store this somewhere for when the change is rolled out to the RoW - e.g. .co.uk vs .com.

You would think after the stink when they changed their basic search a couple of years ago they would have learned not to mess.

Then again what am I saying, we geeks with code love to mess. If we designed cars for VW they would still be making the Beetle whilst we were making last minute changes to the Mk1 Golf .... in 2010.