This past tuesday Google launched a major redesign of how we search for imagery. The revamp of Google Image Search includes new features like being able to select the size you need, whether it’s a face, photo, clip art or line drawing, or even what color you might want. The photos load on a landing page and you have an infinite scroll, which gives users up to 1,000 images per search page along with a hover pane, (pop up) that shows image data and what website the image came from.

From the San Jose Mercury News who interviewed Ben Ling, director of search products for Google: “We give you better information about the image on the result page so you make a better decision about what image you are interested in.”

Google’s image search now indexes more than 10 billion images.

So many people search the “web” and never even notice the top left has other categories, such as videos, maps, news, shopping, mail, etc…

In searching for the right image, remember just because it’s up there on the web, doesn’t mean it’s free to use. Make sure to be careful about usage and that many images are copyrighted!