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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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Post by fbdjskajxb »

prepend wrote: post #33

So it’s ok for google to scrape and save images and display them without compensating photographers (which I’m cool with), but not users? This is bizarre, anti user functionality. By default if the image is available on the web, it is meant to be seen. This is going to make high school PowerPoint users spend more time, and result in zero extra revenue and zero drop in copyright infringement. The more interesting ques…

The way you find out whether a change like this afffects revenue is by testing it, not speculating.

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

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Post by Romanulus »

pedalpete wrote: post #7

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?

Yeah, but when I search for an image, then that's _all_ I want. I don't want to be forced to meander down the path of where the image was posted and see any of the content that supports it (which is usually pages of comments). Google, you're a search engine - Find me what I'm looking for and get out of my way.

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

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Post by stonewhite »

On a somewhat related note, I recently noticed that the thumbnails and respective images in the mobile version of Google Images tab are no longer served from Google's servers, as it takes a heck of a long time for me to actually get a feedback from the site and reach to the image/source.

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

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Post by ISL »

cobookman wrote: post #41
dmoy wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Until Getty goes after Bing too, from the scant details in the article. This is why I'm scared of Twitch getting big enough to draw itself into publishers' crosshairs and have similar controls for copyright and stuff as YouTube does.

im bullish on blockchain tech around solving this issue. No single point to sue & bully.

Just a public ledger to show exactly whom is responsible.

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

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Post by NamTaf »

lambda wrote: post #31
pedalpete wrote: post #7

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?

This is a huge annoyance. A lot of times I am looking for images which are in the public domain, and for which if I go to the page in question, I have to then sort through dozens of images to find the one I had been looking at already in the search. Here's an example. I've just done a search, found an image that I want to view larger, the image is long since in the public domain, but when I click on "visit" I get a p…

Your edit picked up on exactly what I was going to reply with letting you know until I saw you already got there. Expanding on it, you can 'copy image location' (at least in FF) to get the original image URL, and you can also middle-click 'view image' to open the image itself in a new tab. Both are useful tricks when rifling through images.

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Post by ComputerGuru »

bitmapbrother wrote: post #50
prepend wrote: post #33

So it’s ok for google to scrape and save images and display them without compensating photographers (which I’m cool with), but not users? This is bizarre, anti user functionality. By default if the image is available on the web, it is meant to be seen. This is going to make high school PowerPoint users spend more time, and result in zero extra revenue and zero drop in copyright infringement. The more interesting ques…

It's right there in the article >Google has long been under fire from photographers and publishers who felt that image search allowed people to steal their pictures, and the removal of the view image button is one of many changes being made in response. A deal to show copyright information and improve attribution of Getty photos was announced last week and included these changes. Using the context menu to "Open Image…

> using the context menu to “Open Image in New tab” essentially dos the same thing so the functionality is still there.

No, actually “view image” loaded the source image at source resolution while viewing the image loaded into the DOM would show you the re-encoded, lower resolution, smaller Google thumbnail version.

Edit: actually it seems that Google has simultaneously deployed an update that makes the actual source image open so that might actually work.

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

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Post by nkristoffersen »

ericd wrote: post #36
lambda wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, because Getty is in the business of licensing their images to other sites. If an image appears on a news article, it could be from Getty. If it's on a blog post, it could be from Getty. You could have some protocol by which sites indicated that it can't be linked; but then everyone who embeds a Getty image would have to change their site to adopt that, and that would probably involve Getty having to change their…

That all sounds like a Getty problem.

Which is why they sued. To solve that problem.

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

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Post by kylec »

vortico wrote: post #34

DuckDuckGo still has this feature in their Images search, using the "View File" button. It also doesn't wrap the URL of search results in a Google redirect URL, so you can Right Click > Copy to get the actual URL of the webpage or image.

This might just be the thing that gets me to switch. I use "Show Image" for the image search all the time.

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

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Post by ghostcluster »

kalleboo wrote: post #49
prepend wrote: post #33

So it’s ok for google to scrape and save images and display them without compensating photographers (which I’m cool with), but not users? This is bizarre, anti user functionality. By default if the image is available on the web, it is meant to be seen. This is going to make high school PowerPoint users spend more time, and result in zero extra revenue and zero drop in copyright infringement. The more interesting ques…

> The more interesting question is why google is doing this. They got sued. "These changes came about in part due to our settlement with Getty Images this week."

The feature is still available on Bing Images, for now: http://www.bing.com/images/
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