Google keeps giving us more and more reasons for us to replace it with something better that actually serves the needs of users. I should get coding ;)
Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
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Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
#262Click image, right click, choose menu option 'view image'.
Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
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Long ago, when I still thought of Google as a good company that made good decisions for its users, I never had the impression that I'd done an exhaustive web search until I searched on Google. Now, searching Google always gives me the impression that I'm searching a heavily filtered, AI-curated subset of the web. I switched to DDG recently, and so far the results give me that impression that I'm searching 'the whole…
DDG is mostly just Bing results in case you're unaware.
They use "over 400 sources" for results.
Most of their links come from their own webcrawler, Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex.
Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
#264Quotes 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…
As soon as a big corporation tells you something is for your benefit you should check the contents of your pockets and make sure all your fingers are still there. It's a sure sign something has gone missing.
Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
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Hmm, I get pretty good DDG search results in Japanese. I assume you're searching in your target language, rather than search terms in English with the name of your desired language tacked on?
To be fair, DDG is actually quite decent in Japanese but when searching in French I find that it's often lacking. I think it's mostly that French is not dissimilar enough from English for the search engine to pick up on it sometimes.
It might also have something to do with more French speakers knowing English than Japanese speakers knowing English.
Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
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1. Try adding "-getty" to your image search 2. For the more general problem of searching free images only try hitting tools -> usage rights and select as desired
Wow, that still works. I'd largely given up on + and - lately.
It’ll work until they launch a Google- product.
Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
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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
That would make an interesting post by itself.
Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
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Since the change is motivated by legal reasons, I expect logic didn't have much of a voice in the decision.
Right. I was a PM on Google Image Search and, from what I experienced on the team, would assume this is related to the Getty Relationship, not for users’ benefit
And I assume the reason they don't just say the Getty battle is the reason for this is due to other legal concerns about libel and slander. Even if we find alternatives to Google Image search, the alternative will get stuck in the same impossible situation eventually :/
Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
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Why not just remove the feature for pictures from Getty then, or simply not show their pictures at all? Surely that is within the technical capability of Google.
Presumably because others could now sue Google for the same reasons, and they would be even more likely to win given the Getty result.
This. Otherwise known as "legal precedent".
Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
#270DuckDuckGo 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.
Been a ddg user since the early days, and it's amazing how obvious they make googles user hostile moves year after year. Amp, blackhat seo support because $, non boolean search, and now images.
Honestly, this is why I love the Internet. Because while a company gets more and more focused on profits and power the Internet will just come up with something better... until that thing becomes the thing it hates and the pattern repeats.
A perfect example of this is digg and reddit. Reddit has gone so far downhill the minute someone has a real replacement it's going the way of Slashdot.
Fuck Google, Fuck Facebook, Fuck Microsoft, Fuck oracle, Fuck reddit, and Fuck all the other services that pretend to be for the user while they abuse the user.
Join me on the foss-side, we have source code. (Ddg has a cli search client just fyi)