Google Images celebrates 25th birthday with new personalized desktop homepage

Google Images is celebrating its 25th birthday this week with a new homepage experience.

Launched in July 2001, it allows users to search and explore visual content from around the web instantly. The company is now unveiling a new, browsable homepage at images.google.com.

When signed in on a desktop, users will see a dynamic, immersive gallery of images personalized to their interests. An important feature of the redesign is the ability to save images to Google’s collections.

Above the gallery, tabs will let users quickly resume exploring based on their previous interests.

The Google Images redesign will gradually launch on desktop in the US English version over the next few weeks. Additionally, Google is enhancing AI Overviews by integrating image generation.

This new feature, powered by Nano Banana 2 Lite, will also gradually become available in English across all countries that support AI Mode for image creation.

Sometimes, the ideal image is available online, waiting to be discovered. However, at times you might have a very specific idea that no existing image can fulfill.

To realize these unique concepts, we’re integrating image generation directly into AI Overviews in Search.

The announcement also highlights other milestones in visual search achievements 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