Meta data about the images in the largely hidden location makes it more important to show the results on the screen.
Google launches new version of Image Search:
Users also have the opportunity to have more viewing of images, by selecting her.
Some of these features are similar in nature as Microsoft Bing Image Search works.
Clicking on any resulting images, Google opens a web page with the image in the top of the page. This could be bad news for publishers, they may lose advertising revenue if the user simply copies the image overlay on top and never visits the page itself.