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by fr0man 5810 days ago
Not active for my Google yet, but looking at the article, it seems to be a set of changes they really had to make to keep up with Bing. Bing's UI for image searches is really hands down much better than Google's current way of doing it. I gave up on Bing text searches a while back, but always pull it up for images. Even if Bing's marketshare never takes off, I look forward to a game of leapfrog between the two. We as end-users will benefit from that.
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Google image search is better in one way that I noticed within the first 3 seconds of using the two: You can scroll up and down the results in Google using the up and down arrows. Bing has focus in the search box. You need to click somewhere in the scrollable results viewport to get it to scroll with the cursor keys. This is such a basic, annoying screw-up.
You're right. I never noticed because I always use the mouse scroll wheel for that. My #1 biggest Bing image search gripe is middle click doesn't work in Chrome for opening in a new tab, yet right click->open in new tab does.