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I noticed an interesting revision to Google’s image search functionality today: the dimensions, file format, and host site of an image are now hidden by default, only to be revealed when a user hovers over a particular picture. This is new right? At least I’ve never noticed it before.
The change is sort of nice, as it trims down on the amount of data a user need to sort through when they’re browsing images, but part of me misses the old style of Google’s image search. A great majority of the images that end up on Crashpod were meticulously unearthed from Google’s image tool, and having an instant bird’s eye view of how large the fair I was looking at was key.
This new format tends to breed situations where I’ll see a perfect image that’d like to post, only to meet with disappointment as I mouse over the preview and see that it’s a 40×40 thumbnail. Of course one can still tell Google if they’re looking for small, medium, or large images, but that ability to have a generous hopper of all the pictures on the web concerning John Matrix and his venomous rival Bennett is ideal.
This is progress I guess, I just wish the big G would let me toggle their new functionality on and off.
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Ryan- was there a person that may have recently “influenced” your decision to post pics of Bennet and Colonel Matrix (respectively)?
Justin- do you yet have the powers to influence the addition of toggle? When do you get the power to throw cars with your mind?
Naturally Chad being in town, with a cloth mail vest in tow had a heavy influence on Bennet and the Colonel’s appearence, how could it not?
I dont think the average user is particularly well educated in how big a pixel is, so giving the user data about the resolution is somewhat unnecessary. I would rather toggle over an image and see it expand to its full resolution. Then, if I click on the image it takes me to the host site. Ajax could let you do that….right?