Google Images is celebrating its 25th birthday this week, and marking the occasion with a new homepage experience.
Google Images launched in July 2001 to let you “search and instantly explore visual content from across the web.”
Google is now introducing a “brand new browsable home for Google Images” at images.google.com (as seen above). When signed in on desktop web, you’ll get a “dynamic, immersive gallery” of pictures that are “tailored to your unique interests.”
A key part of this redesign is the ability to save images into Google’s existing collections feature. Above the gallery, Google Images will show tabs that let you “jump back in and continue exploring based on what inspires you.”
The Google Images redesign is rolling out over the coming weeks on desktop in US English.
Meanwhile, Google is adding image generation to AI Overviews. Powered by Nano Banana 2 Lite, this is rolling out over the coming weeks in English for all countries that support AI Mode image creation.
Sometimes, the perfect image is out there on the web, waiting to be found. But other times you might have a highly specific vision where an image doesn’t yet exist. To help bring those unique ideas to life, we’re bringing image generation directly into AI Overviews in Search.
With today’s announcement, Google also highlighted other visual search milestones over the years:
- 2009: “The Similar Images feature made it possible to find pictures without relying on text alone.”
- 2011: “We launched Search by Image to change how you navigate the web — moving beyond text to let the image do the work for you.”
- 2018: Google Lens in Search
- 2022: “Multisearch marked a significant step into the era of multimodal search. Now, you can search with text and images at the same time…”
- 2024: Circle to Search
- 2025: AI Mode, Search Live
- 2026: Intelligent Search Box
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