Speaking anecdotally, I would say I come back to the images results page
about 90% of the time.

Some of the ways I use Google Images is when looking for a company logo for
a presentation, album artwork for my MP3 library, book art for my Delicious
Library database, etc.
In all of those cases, I often go to a search result and discover that the
image, once viewed full size, does not meet my needs, and I need to return
to the search results in the same place that I left.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:19 PM, live <[email protected]> wrote:

> Come back?
> Honestly, have you ever had a need to go back to images after you've
> google/binged them?
> Can you imagine a use case scenario?
>
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Jayson Elliot wrote:
>
>> I would caution STRONGLY against the "bottomless scroll," however.
>> Bing.com
>> has been using it in their image search, presumably as one way to
>> differentiate themselves from Google.
>>
>> It's been a usability disaster.
>>
>> The page draws dynamically, making it difficult for a user to develop any
>> spatial memory of the images they have found. As the user scrolls, they
>> encounter a behavior they were not expecting from a scroll bar, and the
>> ability to intuitively understand where one is in the results set is
>> removed
>> by the lack of location cues.
>>
>> Once a user leaves the page, they cannot return to their selection on the
>> page via use of the back button. If they scrolled through several "pages"
>> of
>> images, they will come back to find themselves looking at different images
>> than when they left (after waiting several seconds for the page to
>> redraw).
>>
>
>
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