A Live Image Search Review
A very unlikely review from me I know, but I was looking for a Nokia phone brand name one day and Nokia site did not help me. I thought the best way is to search Google Images for Nokia until I find my phone and know it’s name. So I went on, and on, and on. Clicking Next after Next after Next. This was a bit tedious really and wasn’t helping. I wanted a faster way to search mass amount of images, and I thought about Live.com. The fact that you can resize image thumbnails in the results, and scroll down for more makes it easier and more efficient if you need to search huge amount of images. So I did that, and eventually got the phone I want. Result of this I can sum up the Pros and Cons of Live Image Search as:
Pros:
- Ability to resize thumbnail size in the result to get more in a single page.
- AJAX powered scroll-down for more feature is really nice, especially for the case that you want to scan large amount of pictures.
Cons:
- Stability: Sometimes Live search simply does not respond to my queries anymore, and I have to refresh the page to make it work.
- Again Stability: Trying to resize images on Firefox sometimes results in scary results, as the one shown below:
It seems to lack in rendering the page sometimes, and then gradually does it resulting in this scary image!
- Not convenient in opening result link in new tab. Ctrl+Click image opens the image result in new tab plus the current one. I hate it I have to click back then every time.
It’s really rare that I don’t find my result on Google, and it almost never happened that I find it on Microsoft Search engine instead. So this makes me think, Google must seriously start restudying search result usability. I know they have option to browse results with shortcut keys, and they also have Searchmash, but that one also requires to click Next to fetch the results on the fly. Not easy as Live interface here let’s be honest. It’s more stable though :).
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