Google Images Gets a Pinterest-Like Redesign Focused On Discovery (techcrunch.com) 30
Google Images is getting a Pinterest-like redesign that turns image search into a personalized discovery feed, with "For You" galleries, real-time updates, and collections for saving visual ideas. "Google is also adding a way for users to create AI images right in Search, as it celebrates 25 years since the debut of Google Images," reports TechCrunch. From the report: After navigating to the redesigned Google Images, users will see a "For You" gallery of images tailored to their interests and browsing history. Like Pinterest, the gallery is designed for continuous browsing, with Google saying it updates in real time with new images. As users browse, they can save ideas to their "collections," which will appear as tabs above the main gallery of photos. For example, users can create collections for things like vacation outfit ideas, travel inspiration, and ways to design a reading nook, which they can come back to later.
[...] As for generating images directly in Search, Google says the feature is meant for moments when you have a highly specific idea for an image that doesn't already exist online. Google is bringing image generation directly into AI Overviews on Search and will use its latest Nano Banana model to transform a text prompt into a custom visual. The feature can also help users reimagine spaces and visualize ideas, such as seeing what a room might look like painted red or what a dorm room with a coastal theme could look like.
[...] As for generating images directly in Search, Google says the feature is meant for moments when you have a highly specific idea for an image that doesn't already exist online. Google is bringing image generation directly into AI Overviews on Search and will use its latest Nano Banana model to transform a text prompt into a custom visual. The feature can also help users reimagine spaces and visualize ideas, such as seeing what a room might look like painted red or what a dorm room with a coastal theme could look like.
"Focused on Discovery" (Score:1)
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Lets see...
There's the SUV (made by Land Rover)
The space shuttle
one of Captain James Cook's ships
the ship used by Robert Falcon Scott in his ill-fated polar polar expedition
an album by Mike Oldfield
A TV documentary channel
and also a Star Trek series
Re: "Focused on Discovery" (Score:4, Interesting)
Because it's all made for marketing. Nothing more, nothing less. If they can convince someone that their content will get more exposure, the disillusioned customer may actually pay for it. That's all there is to it. Marketing and money.
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When I hear this nonsense it enrages me and I want to shoot them in the face.
I just want to shoot them in the face, period.
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Why do business people talk like this? When I hear this nonsense it enrages me and I want to shoot them in the face.
There is nothing in the universe that gets a marketing director more turned on that taking a word that everyone knows the meaning of, a word that has legitimate positive connotations, and turning it into a business-centric, retrograde, idiotic version of its former glory. "Discovery" used to mean something big and glorious. Like an explorer coming upon a new civilization they weren't aware existed. Now? It means a business can shovel directed drivel at you, and rename it "discovery" to make it seem magical
Pinterest ruined Google's image search (Score:4, Insightful)
JFC, Pinterest absolutely ruined Google's image search results years ago. Now they're trying to emulate that?
Anybody have any better alternatives?
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Bing. I’m not even joking.
Re: Pinterest ruined Google's image search (Score:2)
I switched to DuckDuckGo a while back. Later, I found out that they were based off of Bing. I remember being annoyed, but realized that security was better then the disadvantage of using a slightly less capable search engine.
I still use Google from time to time, when being lazy and or I can't find something from DDG. Maybe once a year I can find something that's not on Bing. And of course, Google enshittified itself, so there's that.
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Get your kids a box of crayons and a pad of blank paper. "Joey, I need a picture of a dinosaur". Anything is better than a Pinteristed Google Image Search. Why in the hell is tech so out of touch with reality?
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Get your kids a box of crayons and a pad of blank paper. "Joey, I need a picture of a dinosaur". Anything is better than a Pinteristed Google Image Search. Why in the hell is tech so out of touch with reality?
Reality can't be easily controlled. But? If they can make everyone else believe their surreality, then they can control the narrative, and easily quantify and containerize every single human into pretty little marketing boxes.
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Pinterest must be 99.999% bots now, like most startups that had no plan but to make money selling ads to businesses that think they're connecting with humans.
I'm not sure where the ad revenue is coming from at Google. All I see is Temu garbage that's not relevant to my interests. Most of the time I can't even tell what they're trying to sell, it's just a picture of an AI-generated female form and some alien looking device. Is Temu throwing that much bad money at google? Are advertisers still paying Google f
The further erosion of relatity from big tech (Score:3, Interesting)
Google is also adding a way for users to create AI images right in Search, as it celebrates 25 years since the debut of Google Images
Google, you are one of the forerunners of devaluing my memories in my own photo collection... and this is just one further step. Because of you, when I look at my photos of my past and I have to wonder which ones are real and which ones aren't. You are AI upgrading old YouTube videos, including personal ones, without consent. Your work to make everything fake has "poisoned the well" of things that are real. Someone should really assassinate Google CEO Sundar Pichai for fucking with our personal spaces where AI is not appropriate.
The work of these companies is of the level of someone breaking into your house just so they can draw mustaches on photos of your family members. People paying for these plans are only going to increase the aggressive homeless panhandling of these businesses with new unwanted AI products.
Wrong discovery (Score:4, Insightful)
The only discovery they should be focusing on is making it easier for me to find the exact image I'm looking for.
Re:Wrong discovery (Score:5, Insightful)
The only discovery they should be focusing on is making it easier for me to find the exact image I'm looking for.
Their goal is to tell you what you want, not to give you what you want. You seem to be under the mistaken impression that you're the customer and not the product.
Re: Wrong discovery (Score:2)
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
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You're welcome!
How do I turn it off? (Score:2)
My first question whenever G comes out with a new garbage feature: how do I disable it? Getting rid of the AI "help" in gmail took a bit of work.
They would do well to stop being so obsessed with AI and apply some genuine intelligence to their interface design.
For example, have you ever tried to move ALL of the gmail messages matching a search into a different folder? It can be done, but it's ridiculously difficult.
And while we're at it, those labels on the Android that scroll back and forth? Totally obnoxio
Re: How do I turn it off? (Score:2)
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It doesn't fucking matter because you'll turn it off today and they'll rename, move and bury the toggle tomorrow, the next day and all the way until the fifth thursday after next year.
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This.
Over and over and over. Remember when they had a policy of "don't be evil"?
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They would do well to stop being so obsessed with AI and apply some genuine intelligence to their interface design.
Of course they're going to be obsessed with AI. Look at how much money they've dumped into it. They have to make it work, no matter how few of the individual users of their products use or want it. If it all turns out to have flushed billions of dollars down the toilet, that flushing is going to take managers' careers with it, so they're desperate to find a way, any way, to point to some AI-integrated 'feature' they've added and say "Here. This is where AI makes a difference."
Oh boy (Score:3)
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I'm sure glad i changed search engines. What ever happened to "ok this works, dont fucking change it?"
Marketing and C-suites that haven't touched grass in two generations wanting to dictate reality to the masses. That's what happened.
I miss the days when Slashdot (Score:2)
headline would make me spit coffee on my screen and laugh, instead of today when they make me throw up a little in my own mouth.
Oh the irony (Score:2)
Previously Google Images was mostly spammed by Pinterest anyway. Now they just clone Pinterest.
Finally, the bubble (Score:2)
Too late (Score:3)
Yandex image search left Google in the dust some time ago.