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Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results

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Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results

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I think this will lead people to search for better alternatives. Removing the core part of a major product won't do any good to google. The view page button is often broken and shows a page which doesn't even contain the searched image.

I don't think Google likes it either. "These changes came about in part due to our settlement with Getty Images this week."

Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results

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post #13

I think this will lead people to search for better alternatives. Removing the core part of a major product won't do any good to google. The view page button is often broken and shows a page which doesn't even contain the searched image.

I don't think Google likes it either. "These changes came about in part due to our settlement with Getty Images this week."

Couldn't they just introduce a change that would only affect certain websites such as getty? That would be more logical than completely destroying how image search is meant to be.

Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results

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I'm going to play devils advocate here and say this is a good change. If google was scaping the text of sites and only displaying that, would we think that was ok? Just like google search, this is about giving you a preview, then go to the source. If you want the image, we all know how to find it, get it. How big of an annoyance is this?

Whatever Google does, they will be called evil for it.

Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results

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post #13

I think this will lead people to search for better alternatives. Removing the core part of a major product won't do any good to google. The view page button is often broken and shows a page which doesn't even contain the searched image.

I don't think Google likes it either. "These changes came about in part due to our settlement with Getty Images this week."

I had a feeling the internet copyright fun police had to be involved somewhere. No way Google decides to cripple their product that badly without some kind of legal pressure. It would be funny albeit highly abusive of their position for Google to completely delist Getty from their services, not to damage their business but to prevent copyright infringement of course.

Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think Google likes it either. "These changes came about in part due to our settlement with Getty Images this week."

I had a feeling the internet copyright fun police had to be involved somewhere. No way Google decides to cripple their product that badly without some kind of legal pressure. It would be funny albeit highly abusive of their position for Google to completely delist Getty from their services, not to damage their business but to prevent copyright infringement of course.

This morning everyone hated Google for hosting news pages on their AMP cache, tonight everyone hates Google for NOT hosting images on their image cache.
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