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

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Post by dredmorbius »

tyingq wrote: post #76
dingo_bat wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I binged it, and it took me to this zdnet article: http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-advertising-and-search-e... So the author of that observation is Sergey Brin himself. Lel.

I try not to overuse the reference, but "Anatomy of a Search Engine" [1] is so deliciously prescient and ironic that it's hard to avoid. It's funny how hard Sergey and Larry shifted once personal fortunes changed their motivation. [1] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

It is rather delicious.

(Not to be confused with del.icio.us, which is now ... Pinboard.)

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

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Post by jakubp »

Quotes from @searchliaison:

"Today we're launching some changes on Google Images to help connect users and useful websites."

"Ultimately, Google Images is a way for people to discover information in cases where browsing images is a better experience than text."

Do you believe any of these statements? I am still surprised how easily corporations will hide their true motives, resolve any cognitive dissonance internally, and how easily others will forgive them.

I wonder how people within Google are feeling when this happens. And I don't mean "when a feature gets removed", there may be valid reasons to do that. But when the official communication about them contains manipulative statements such as above, how do employees who aren't allowed to speak up feel?

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

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Post by akkat »

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.

There are some Firefox and chrome add-ons that fix that issue. but I have yet to find something that fixes Facebook's link redirection. Anyone know of one?

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

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Post by veidr »

dingo_bat wrote: post #72
tyingq wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users." Google for that exact phrase and see who made that observation.

I binged it, and it took me to this zdnet article: http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-advertising-and-search-e... So the author of that observation is Sergey Brin himself. Lel.

That's the first time I've ever heard somebody use "bing" as a verb, outside of a Microsoft ad.

(Assuming that your post isn't a new form of Microsoft ad, that is.)

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

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Post by pfortuny »

jakubp wrote: post #92

Quotes from @searchliaison: "Today we're launching some changes on Google Images to help connect users and useful websites." "Ultimately, Google Images is a way for people to discover information in cases where browsing images is a better experience than text." Do you believe any of these statements? I am still surprised how easily corporations will hide their true motives, resolve any cognitive dissonance internally…

They -like every other hyper corporation- are starting to speak not like Governments but like sects.

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

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Post by dude3 »

BadassFractal wrote: post #77
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.

Came here to say exactly this. It's time to embrace DuckDuckGo, I made the switch about 6 months ago, thought I would hate it. Expected the UX to drive me nuts after so long with the Google interface, but it made no difference. It's a really solid drop-in replacement.

The search, image, and shopping results have improved significantly over the past 6 months. Must be better ML. I now prefer it to Bing. Super easy to set it as default on iOS.

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

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Post by ATsch »

jakubp wrote: post #92

Quotes from @searchliaison: "Today we're launching some changes on Google Images to help connect users and useful websites." "Ultimately, Google Images is a way for people to discover information in cases where browsing images is a better experience than text." Do you believe any of these statements? I am still surprised how easily corporations will hide their true motives, resolve any cognitive dissonance internally…

I feel somewhat angry at this tweet. Not because the feature is gone but because they are daft enough to assume that they can sell this as an improvement to their users and anyone will believe it.

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

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Post by veidr »

tritium wrote: post #47
gkoberger wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's... not because they want to. Getty sued them; it's a change they're begrudgingly making.

Basically, fuck Getty Images for a number of reasons. Here’s one reason in particular: https://2600.com/print/27097

Fuck Getty Images, indeed. But thanks for sharing that awesome story!

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

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Post by shiado »

shiado wrote: post #19
lovelearning wrote: post #16

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.

To add to this I wonder what exactly this "new partnership" with Google entails.

http://press.gettyimages.com/getty-images-and-google-announc...

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

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Post by glup »

jakubp wrote: post #92

Quotes from @searchliaison: "Today we're launching some changes on Google Images to help connect users and useful websites." "Ultimately, Google Images is a way for people to discover information in cases where browsing images is a better experience than text." Do you believe any of these statements? I am still surprised how easily corporations will hide their true motives, resolve any cognitive dissonance internally…

There's a reason a lot of people choose not to work there.
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