Google updates Image search interface
January 26th, 2007
Goolge has made a slight update to it’s Image search. It’s not clear how much else of the search engine they’ve updated if at all, but now offers an AJAX’d up (as everything seems to be nowadays) interface where you hover over an image you like and it displays information for it. Check it out - http://images.google.com and type something in.
January 31st, 2007 at 10:25 am
It’s not AJAX… In a nutshell, AJAX is when the page requests information from the server without reloading the whole webpage - check Wikipedia or something.
In this case, the information about the images is in the HTML itself, so it’s no AJAX.
This is supposed to be a tech blog, so please do learn more about technology before posting.. Or, at least, look up the technologies you mention on the posts.
January 31st, 2007 at 1:10 pm
I’ve researched this one after receiving your comment - thanks for what you said though. You’re right, it’s not *true* AJAX but it does receive information via Google’s servers and other website hosters to find the image thumbnail which it takes from the original website to Google’s temporary store (to save bandwidth) then it relays information like the file name, file type and size of the image.
In essance it’s just like before - you could say that before it was server-side but not AJAX… but this still works in a similar way.
Peace