Google Images Now Lets You Swipe Up To Open a Search Result

Building on a burgeoning ecosystem, Google today debuted a new, faster way to visit pages from Google Images on the web: Swipe to Visit. Courtesy AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages), when you select an image in Search on a supported smartphone, you'll see a preview of the website header at the bottom of the screen. From a report: Swiping up will load the corresponding page instantly. Swipe to Visit uses AMP's prerender capability to show previews, so webpages displayed count as pageviews. Better still, publishers who already support AMP don't need to take additional action for their sites to appear in Swipe to Visit on Images. In the coming weeks, they'll be able to track the resulting traffic in a dedicated module within Search Console's performance report for Images.

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[cayenne8]

So clicking or tapping the picture wasn't good enough, you now have to remember to swipe one way or the other?

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[mark-t]

Literally word for word what I was about to remark myself.

This looks like a "feature" that nobody seriously asked for or really wanted.

Swiping up should scroll the page up, not select something.

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[asylumx]

I'm here just trying to figure out how this is considered news.

Left swipe that....

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[mschaffer]

Well, it must be superior. Google did it and msmash wrote an article about it.

Wake me when someone figures out why this is newsworthy.

ridiculous

[BlackOverflow]

Swiping faster than clicking? Umm, no.

AMP will kill the web

[Anonymous Coward]

Use this FF addon to block AMP:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/amp2html/

Maybe they should fix the results instead

[nagora]

Google's search engine is really not very good any more. Still the best, though.

This passes for technology innovation?

[Tough Love]

Whatever happened to the smart people at Google? Oh right, they got fat, lazy and stupid. Hey, how about let me use my phone upside down if I want to? Just a thought. Just something that actually needs fixing. How about letting the phone run in landsacpe the rest of the way so I can hold my gigantic phone like a tablet, which is what I do about half the time, even when you idiotically still display many of the screens in portrait so I have to read them sideways?

Just one more question: why are Googlers so st

Thanks 4 a clumsy solution to a problem u created

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

I usually don't wanna visit the page, just see the picture. Google is the one forcing us to visit the page, which half the time has no way to see the full-size picture their web crawler dug out.

Just relax

[AndyKron]

OMG they have swipe up! To think there was a time when this wasn't even an option and now it's here! Hooray Google! Swipe up swipe down and stamp the phone into the ground.

This is what passes for technology news?

[kazekirifx]

Must be a really slow news day.