• PCMag.com, Friday, August 12, 2011 11:27 AM

Yahoo this week updated its image search with a new layout, viewer, and Facebook integration. "The new layout for image results has three tabs at the top for Top Results, Galleries, and Facebook," reports PCMag.com. "The first shows the standard Web results, the second lists related galleries on Flickr, Yahoo News and OMG, and the third shows results from your Facebook friends' photos if you've connected your Facebook account to your Yahoo account."

Also worth noting, Yahoo image results are now presented in a grid of equally sized squares, while, as with Google and Bing's image search, hovering the cursor over a tile pops up a larger version of the image, along with details such as the size, accompanying text and Web address. "Clicking on any result image now brings up a sort of slideshow viewer, with a panel on the right that lets you jump to an image or play them all as a slideshow," PCMag points out.

"Images appear quickly, at first in low resolution, but as the full image is downloaded, it reaches full sharpness." But the handiest part of this new viewer, according to PCMag, is that the full site page where the image came from is displayed in a frame below.

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