I think you're missing an important point. Clicking on the image in Bing does open the site within a frame, but not the full image. If you use the "back" button in your browser, you will be taken to a different place than you were previously.
If you click the "back" link on the page (not using the browser button, as would be standard), you may be taken to the place you were before, although the images may have shifted by a row or more. If you were to click the "full size" link before going back, you will be taken to a completely different part of the image results. Full size links open in new windows, which can lead to user confusion due to loss of window focus. Overall, it's a clumsy solution to a problem that may or may not have existed in the first place. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:35 PM, live <[email protected]> wrote: > You don't lose your place in Bing images. > Try it. > Search for something, scroll for awhile, click on it. Not good? Click back > link. Still in search spot. > > On Dec 7, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Jayson Elliot wrote: > > 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). >>> >> >> > > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
