Users criticize new Google images format

Yes - it is horrible - jumbled up like a collage and the file dimensions are not on view - I need to know the picture I'm after is large - at least leave an option to use the old version

i hate the new google layout...and i'm not saying this because i don't like change,it's because it's a complete waist of time....google now has so many pictures downloading on one page,that my computer crashes EVERYTIME!!!!! it's verry frustrating....well..all good things comes to an end i guess...it's time 4 me to move on...by by google.

I'm not too keen on it either. I agree with whoever said the search is unusable. And everybody also fails to address the browser window resizing bug - you're reset to the top of the page!

I hate the new way you have setup the google image search!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have been a big fan of google and i use it ll the time, but i just do not agree with the new layout and i wish it would be changed back if all possible

sincerely,
google fan

I hate this new search with google, I used to use google because it had more images but now it looks like im back to yahoo!

At the least give an option for users to revert to the original search because it seams almost no one likes this search at all.

New Google Image layout sucks big time. Come on Google!!! You can do much, much better than that. The old layout is much, much better!!!!!!!!

I detest the new layout of Google images, it looks like a complete mess, not nearly as clear and organised like before. It looks like a load of thumbnails posted onto a word document, the way they all cram into one page. The only good thing about the new layout is how it shows the thumbnail slightly larger when you hover over it, however, when you click on the image, it looks so much more confusing than before. I hope this isn't the final layout; Google, trial and error method. You've trialed this, it failed, try again. Please.

it sucks.. whenever i scroll down the pictures aren't even loaded.. and they hurt my eyes! theres soo much.. like a big mess of pictures.. change it back.

new image search sucks

You can always count on Google to ruin something good. There was no need to change the layout. The new layout is garbage, now everytime I search for something, my computer lags with all the pictures at once. What the were they thinking?

The original layout is what made me use Google over others like Yahoo and Bing. Looks like I'm not using Google anymore.

I at first thought my computer had a virus or something. The new image search layout locks my computer up. It will show PAGE 1 and then the rest of the pages will be nothing but gray blocks. And I like to know WHERE any inage is before I click on it. Google, change it back or I will have to find a new search engine. You took the best inage search engine on the net and made it useless. WHY? You have hacked and killed your own web site. WHY?

So glad to know I'm not the only one! I hate it!! I can only get the first page of images loaded. UGH!!

Google, what the hack have you done to the best image search engine ever? The new one is unusable! And useless! I can only see PAGE 1 and the rest is just lots and lots of gray blocks! I'm not against changes, but ... Come on! Changes are supposed to be made for better, not for worse!

Google, please give us back your old image search engine! PLEEEEASE!!!

After two or three uses of the new layout, I went right to account/search preferences to change back to the original layout, only to find no such option exists. Very disappointing. The new layout is clunky, it's a pain-in-the-neck to actually view the full-sized version of the image, and this custom Google image-viewing window that pops up adds nothing but another layer between myself and the original content. Google needs to realize that there's a reason the majority of the planet uses their product--because they're better than Bing and Yahoo!.

Well, they were. This company-wide insecurity of Google's in their product is not very appealing. If I want Bing I'll go there. All this seems very similar to the horrible flailing-around Yahoo! did a few years ago, trying to keep up with, you guessed it: Google.

Gosh, I must be the only one who doesn't hate change. I don't mind this change and will certainly not be whinging at and/or leaving Google for it. For one I didn't always like to have to click each page manually and this makes it easier :)

absolutely hate it......the pictures randomly magnify and I can't let my mouse hover for even a second......bring back the old google!

I absolutely cannot stand the new search.
BUT THERE IS A WAY TO GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL: You have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and there is a button that says "Switch to basic version". It's a pain, but it'll do for now until they *hopefully* switch it back.

Anon:

The switch back option is better than nothing, provided your system doesn't crash. But it's not the old version. The thumbnails seem smaller to me and the text underneath juts out and distorts everything. Also, you have to "switch back" every time you use it.

I hate the new google images! I am trying to work on a theatre assignment for school and I need to put together a concept board; I usually always use google images but the new layout is frustrating, hard to navigate and slower to load. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING, GOOGLE?

It says 'switch to basic view at the bottom '.

What really rankles is that Google never asked users if they wanted a new image search, they just popped it on everyone -- without even a feedback mechanism! It reeks of the days of the Evil Empire, when software "improved" in fits and starts depending on whether BillG or one of his henchmen had had a nice night or not. This layout is completely useless. I've stopped using it and won't again. Gad, what a drecky idea.

WHAT!!!!! You guys must be crazy. This new layout helps me incredibly to find pictures and analyze before i waste my time clicking ont he website and realixing that I don't like it. I love the new google images and I have recommended it to all my friends who say they love it too!!!!:D

Yea I agree with the person that likes it. I am rather busy most of the time and don't have time to wait for my computer to load a picture that I soon realize I don't like. The old layout kept crashing my computer. I like the changes google made!!

If you really want to go back to t he old one just scroll down and switch to basic. Google is giving you a option and is trying to change their ways to include more people. It may take a while to sdjust but I like it a lot and I really hope that you guys will learn to like it too.

If you use "User Agent" you can change Firefox to be identified as "Internet Explorer 6" and the awful setting goes away (at least until they change it for IE6 also).

The new layout is terrible!
I want the old Google layout or I'm moving to Bing/Yahoo!

I hate it! this new google images is awfull. Bye bye google hi yahoo.

well there goes the #1 search engine!!! BLAH!!!

Get used to change, old people!

Having finally encountered Google's new image search, I'm incredibly unimpressed. Yes, it loads more pictures on a pages. It also has some serious problems.
1. It puts Google squarely in the cross-hairs of copyright groups (again) by possibly violating fair use parameters. This time, the copyright groups may actually have a case.
2. It hides pertinent information about the images, such as pixels and page-source, under an extra layer of user controlled action.
3. In an age of mobile users with ultra-lite netbooks, iPhones, smartphones, and wi-fi connections, this new image layout is a bandwidth hog.

Overall, this just seems like a big step backwards for Google. Fortunately for me, my ustart page still returns image searches in a usable manner.

Wow. Just wow. This must be the worst image search layout i've ever seen.
Why so many images per page?
It confuses the eyes. Its hard to concentrate on a single photo.

Its like a JUNKYARD of images, just laying around like a mess.

Bring back the old layout. People loved it.
I'll give them 30 days to comply! or im leaving google. BOYCUT! Buujaah

It was a brilliant idea to have a simple mouseover enlarge the image--NOT!!! Do you realize how annoying that is?!?!? Everyone fiddles with the mouse when scanning a page of text or images even though 99% of all web content sucks. Bring back the old Google image format!

I perform hundreds of image searches each week and absolutely hate Google's new image search. It used to display many images so we could quickly see several results at once. Now it displays only one picture at a time. If you select that picture, it takes you to the image's home page where you must then close the image to see it in the original format.

It takes ten times as long to find what I want. In other words, Google is wasting time.

Of course, once can revert to the old Google format from a link at the bottom of the search page, but the change only lasts during this browsing session. During the next image search, you must start the process again.

If Google insists on this asinine change, then why not let us select our image search display choice in our preferences.

I've switched to BING image search. Bing's search results were never as good as Google'sat, but it's certainly much better --and faster -- than Google's current set-up.

chala is telling the truth,she is completly right.