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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 username223 »

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 aren't, they don't, and they simply don't care. That's the defining feature of PR-speak: they're lying, they know they're lying, they know you know they're lying, and they just don't care.

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

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Post by shoover »

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.

Good. I am going to need something to help my kids print coloring pages cleanly.

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

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Post by leeoniya »

bitL wrote: post #183
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…

Google is now a firm part of establishment, i.e. protecting the old ways of making money instead of inventing new ones. They initially looked like a company that could find better ways but it seems like prevailing winds were stronger in the end. The "to help connect users and useful websites" while removing that possibility is just usual expected spin associated with classical businesses. YouTube is also turning into…

next stop: EME-wrapped (DRM) images

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Post by bootlooped »

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.

It's really just a minor inconvenience right? I wouldn't call it breaking the internet.

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

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Post by amelius »

sideshowb wrote: post #228
amelius wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google, just give me the option to ignore Getty images altogether. Why does Google always think they know what is best for me?

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

Yes, but that doesn't enable the "view image" button.

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Post by bootlooped »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #238
tux1968 wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious, in what way? I can not look at any Pinterest content because I don't have an account with them. Figured most people would relent and sign up -- but perhaps this is the problem you were talking about?

Pintrest spams Image Search results with bogus results and uses them as the top of their funnel. You click a Pintrest image unsuspectingly, Pintrest takes you to a vaguely relevant board the image is contained on, but you can't get to the image because a signup lightbox blocks the content. This has wider implications because using reverse image search wont point you to the original images either anymore it'll mostly…

Have you tried using search operators to exclude results from Pintrest?

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Post by bitwize »

bitL wrote: post #183
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…

Google is now a firm part of establishment, i.e. protecting the old ways of making money instead of inventing new ones. They initially looked like a company that could find better ways but it seems like prevailing winds were stronger in the end. The "to help connect users and useful websites" while removing that possibility is just usual expected spin associated with classical businesses. YouTube is also turning into…

Speaking of cable TV -- back in the 80s and 90s, Nickelodeon was groundbreaking. Today it's basically Disney Channel 2. Anything that rebelsagainst cable TV will end up looking like cable TV,just like the cable networks rebelled against the status quo before becoming the status quo. Maybe what we have is a sort of local maximum, a formula that best "works" for our local culture.

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

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Post by akerro »

z3t4 wrote: post #206

The only problem is that 90% of the time the image is removed from the site ! The image is often still hosted, but has been removed from the page content. This is very annoying! So the next step for Google is to actually make sure the site still has the image before including it in the search results. btw Text search has the same problem, but is less annoying because we are so used to web sites not having the info an…

>The image is often still hosted, but has been removed from the page content.

The same applies to web searches,

>So the next step for Google is to actually make sure the site still has the image before including it in the search results.

And they should do the same for videos and DDoS the whole Internet just for 0.004% of chances making minor manual action a bit inconvenient.

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