Thursday, December 8, 2011

Tablet image results in new carousel view

(Cross-posted on the Inside Search blog)

In July, we started to evolve the Google design and experience on Android and iOS tablets by updating features like larger touch targets and enhanced image viewing to make searching faster and easier. Today, we’re building on that foundation by adding a new image carousel for viewing large image results within a few swipes.

As someone who enjoys being outdoors, I like exploring beautiful images of nature. With the new image carousel, I can discover photos of bright sea anemones or colorful lorikeet birds on my tablet in a more interactive and immersive way. Now when I tap on an image result, it’ll expand in the carousel view and I can swipe through the search results. To learn more about an image, a tap on the web page preview, title, description or URL will take me directly to the webpage. See how you can take the image carousel for a spin:





Try out the new image carousel by going to Google on your iOS or Android tablet’s browser and searching for your favorite images. This feature is currently available in over 40 languages.

I hope you enjoy searching for beautiful images in this new view.

Posted by Nathan Beach, Product Manager
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11 comments:

  1. pflorinDecember 8, 2011 at 8:26 AM

    Awesome i have a galaxy tab this is great.. Google working to improve tablets experience ... awesome thanks guys for the hard work!!

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  2. MattDecember 8, 2011 at 8:34 AM

    Cool...a tablet running ICS!

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  3. UnknownDecember 8, 2011 at 8:36 AM

    When can we expect the ICS push to the US WIFI Xoom, clearly this Xoom is running it and it is supposed to be a GED? Can we get any information on that?

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  4. G. I.December 8, 2011 at 8:57 AM

    Really nice, works on my Xperia Arc and it's not even a tablet! :)

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  5. Donovan ColbertDecember 8, 2011 at 9:57 AM

    Not working right on my Transformer TF101.

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  6. Donovan ColbertDecember 8, 2011 at 10:03 AM

    Does, however, work as advertised on my Droid 2 phone. ch

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  7. Chris PrattDecember 8, 2011 at 11:34 AM

    Doesn't appear to work with Dolphin HD Browser on my NotionInk Adam tablet?
    (*Chris*)

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  8. Tom IanelloDecember 8, 2011 at 5:57 PM

    So why am I unable to see the redesigned Google Search or Image Search features on my Droid X or Nook Color CM7? Do I have to have Honeycomb to be able to access the cool new search pages?

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  9. Tom IanelloDecember 8, 2011 at 6:06 PM

    Never mind, had to do some digging to find out that only Android 3.1+ is supported. Thanks for thinking of us second-class Android users, Google.

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  10. HackTikDecember 9, 2011 at 4:06 AM

    Quite nice. WIll try this out on my galaxy tab. Thanx

    Convert blog into magazine

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  11. richardberryDecember 14, 2011 at 1:31 PM

    Well picture seems that this tablet must be awesome.
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