Google Images Gets a Pinterest-Like Redesign Focused On Discovery (techcrunch.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/14/215259/google-images-gets-a-pinterest-like-redesign-focused-on-discovery
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/google-images-gets-a-pinterest-like-redesign-focused-on-discovery/
> 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.
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> [...] 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.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/google-images-gets-a-pinterest-like-redesign-focused-on-discovery/
Pinterest ruined Google's image search (Score:3)
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.
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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?
The further erosion of relatity from big tech (Score:1)
> 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 w
Wrong discovery (Score:3)
The only discovery they should be focusing on is making it easier for me to find the exact image I'm looking for.
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> 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!
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Not only that, but when I search for an image of a "tin foil hat" I want to see results of a Tin Foil Hat. I don't want to see conspiracy theorists, Lizard People, or UFO's. Let alone recommending me images of Big Foot or anti-vaxers in the name of "discovery". Just show me what I search for, is it that hard?
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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:2)
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.