When did Google's image-search adopt this horrible, clumsy format? [View All]

[Orrex]

It was 1000X better when it was just static thumbnails on a white background. Now you get that annoying blow-up feature when you hover over a thumbnail, and when you click on one of them you get dumped to the hosting page with the image front-and-center and the rest of the page ghosted out behind.

It's horrible. If I'd seen this format without knowing that it's Google, I'd have said "well, Google will blow this shit out of the water."