Google gets a new image search on Android and iPhone

Filed under: Photo, Google, Search, Mobile

If you used Google to search for images on an iPhone or Android before this week, you know the experience was a bit lacking. Fortunately, Google has revamped its mobile image search, doing away with that one-image-at-a-time, no-pinch-to-zoom nonsense. The new image results page uses square thumbnails to maximize the number of images on screen. It's about time, Google!

The new viewer mode for individual images is a huge improvement, too. The images are shown at as large a size as possible -- instead of just a slightly bigger thumbnail, as in the old version -- and the navigation buttons are big and easy to use. Return to thumbnails and view full size buttons fade in when you touch the screen. All in all, it's a huge improvement over the old image search experience.

If my description isn't cutting it for you, watch Google's brief demo video after the jump.

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