Use Google Image Search as in the old times
July 30th, 2010 | Published on: News | 1 Comment
Use Google Image Search as in the old times
Although Google Image Search new interface is not available yet, as we were mentioning here there are some users who already criticize it. Luckily, there’s a solution for those who can’t get used to it or find it useless and wish to go back to the previous version of this browser.
Google Image Search’s new interface, which is very similar to its Young competitor Microsoft Bing, can be restored to its old view mode by changing the URL of the image search results. To do this, we must add “&sout=1” (without quotation marks).
So, if we have this link as the result of an image search:
http://www.google.com.ar/images?q=jim%20morrison&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=es&tab=wi
we only need to add &sout=1. This is what it should look like:
http://www.google.com.ar/images?q=jim%20morrison&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=es&tab=wi&sout=1
Although it is not very convenient since the user must change the URLs manually, it is a helpful tip. Google itself will surely release a customized option or some kind of add-on for these users if the complaints continue.
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August 9th, 2010 at 1:48 pm (#)
New version of Google Images is indeed a real-true-authentic pain in the neck. Not only is is unaesthetic, hard on the eyes, but moreover it takes an eternity to have the thumbnails appear, and often many of those are just blank (though the zoom will show picture).
I’ve known all competitors decide insane pure idiocy innovations, but never Google up to now. Hope their new policy is not trying to follow a whatever fashion, but remains being intelligent.