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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 Sylos »

tobyhinloopen wrote: post #111

Omg how do I get stock images & icons for my applications now?! /jk

Yeah, that's the biggest joke about this. Those who have an actual financial interest in not paying for stock images etc. are generally people who understand computers and basically will just have to do two clicks more than before, which is still absolutely worth doing compared to paying for the image.

People trying to just grab whatever free image off the internet as well as cases of fair use are where this change is going to cause the most hindrance.

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

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Post by Arnt »

ATsch wrote: post #97
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.

They have to say that, no matter whether they mean it.

What else could they say that wouldn't anger Getty Images?

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

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Post by napa15 »

The kinds of things that people get outraged over nowadays is amazing, holy cow. I always thought that it was very unfair for people to be able to see your images on google in full quality without even having to visit your website at all. But more than that.. it's a tiny extra step. 210 upvotes, 126 comments for this? I wouldnt even give this a thought if it wasnt for this weird interest here. I count this a step into the right direction, maybe they'll fix AMP too and make it into a checkmark that gets applied in the search results if your website fulfills certain speed requirements.

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

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Post by sundvor »

veidr wrote: post #94
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.

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.)

https://duckduckgo.com/ also had this link as its #1 result. I much prefer DDG - have converted across all my devices now in the past month and I'm really, really liking it. (Sorry off topic, but it's contextual.)

What's that then, I ducked it? :-)

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

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Post by ianamartin »

imron wrote: post #121
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…

> Do you believe any of these statements? Well, technically "to help connect users and useful websites" is true. You now have to visit the website that had the photo if you want to download the full-size version, whereas previously you could bypass the site and download it from Google Images directly.

I don't normally do this because we aren't Reddit here, after all. But this is stupidly appropriate.

https://www.xkcd.com/1475/

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

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Post by gatmne »

blub wrote: post #81
Zak wrote: post #73

I had not heard of Getty Images prior to today, but I now associate them with breaking the internet. I don't like it when people do that, so if I ever find myself in the position of needing to buy stock images, now I've heard of Getty Images and I'll make sure I pay someone else.

They're probably the most well known stock photography company out there, I don't think they'll miss your business if you hadn't even heard of them. And they apparently own iStockPhoto and they are themselves under ownership of a large group. Voting with one's feet works against local grocery shops, not global corporations.

You can add my business to GP's.

I'm currently in the market for stock photos. The allotted budget isn't one those folk would miss, but it's more than enough to commission our own.

As a direct response to getty's behavior, I'll be commissioning the photos and making them available under a free license after around a year of use. It's also very unlikely that I'll be doing business with them in the future.

>Voting with one's feet works against local grocery shops, not global corporations.

It isn't as much of vote with my feet as it is adhering to one's own principles.

Also, thank you for mentioning istockphoto relationship with getty. I'll avoid them in the future as well.

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

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Post by wutbrodo »

Iv wrote: post #75
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.

Users are the goods, not the clients, of Google. Remember: if you get a service for free, then you are the merchandise.

> Remember: if you get a service for free, then you are the merchandise.

Like Wikipedia, right?

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

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Post by pluma »

If memory serves well, this wasn't ever possible on mobile devices in the first place. Countless times I've googled an image of something I want to show someone, found a result, clicked on it to zoom in (because the image search result page doesn't support zoom) and ended up on a page that doesn't even contain the image itself.

I'm not sure what limitations were the rationale for not providing this option on mobile but selling this change as an improvement is ridiculous -- especially when it was made to avoid (more) legal issues.

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

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Post by bartread »

egeozcan wrote: post #118

Image and html files are all documents on the web. Well at least they used to be. If you put an image on the web, you must expect people to be able to view it also without context.

Actually hot-linking in that way is often considered bad form because it can incur bandwidth costs, sometimes significant, for the image host.

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

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Post by Sylos »

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?

Image search finds images mostly based on the text that is placed near the image on the webpage.

So, with your search engine, you'd put in keywords to describe an image, it would then look at the webpages' text to figure out, if the image on there might be relevant, then it would present the images that it has found, so that you can select the webpage that you want to go to based on the image which's surrounding text on the webpage suits your keywords.

That does sound like a cool concept for a search engine, but ultimately just the regular web search will do the same without the fuzziness of images added in between.

As a result, I don't know anyone who uses image search to find a webpage.

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