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Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results

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Post by walshemj »

staplers wrote: post #321
psyc wrote: post #78

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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…

The easiest way to view how wrongly Google has strayed is to search for something like "First Singer Songwriter". Google automates a rich card to say "Charles Trenet 1938" while showing an image of Woody Guthrie.. It's generating its own fake news at this point.

And its ignoring the long history of folk protest song eg "the world turnd upside down" which is a ECW protest song.

Oh and I forgot the medieval Chanson which is ever earlier.

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Post by [deleted] »

amelius wrote: post #197
Buge wrote: post #107

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One of the follow up tweets is more honest: >For those asking, yes, these changes came about in part due to our settlement with Getty Images this week (see also https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017864/google-removes-v... …). They are designed to strike a balance between serving user needs and publisher concerns, both stakeholders we value. https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/964279749802512384

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

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Post by khedoros1 »

imglorp wrote: post #231
sideshowb wrote: post #228

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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.

I still use them (replace + with quotes around the word), along with searches for quoted words. Sometimes you have to click the "search for what I typed, not the spell-corrected version" button, though.

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Post by Zarath »

Gravityloss wrote: post #204
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…

Honesty has a cost.

Yes, for bad actors

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Post by eurticket »

amelius wrote: post #197
Buge wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the follow up tweets is more honest: >For those asking, yes, these changes came about in part due to our settlement with Getty Images this week (see also https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017864/google-removes-v... …). They are designed to strike a balance between serving user needs and publisher concerns, both stakeholders we value. https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/964279749802512384

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

Every couple of months something like this happens and people bash the companies that did it while simultaneously there are posts where screams of how great AI will be at predicting what we want, and then executing it based on all the information harvesting.

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Post by da_chicken »

mygo wrote: post #339
Slackwise wrote: post #208

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> Why does Google always think they know what is best for me? This is the entire ethos of the "AI Revolution" in tech. The algorithm "knows what is best for you". This will only get worse with more "AI" being applied to more tech.

This is my gripe with Facebook and why I stopped using it. Biaaaaootch, I added people to my friends list because I want to see their posts. Ditch the dang algorithm and literally just show me everyone’s posts, in chronological order. That’s all you literally have to do. Don’t worry about me getting annoyed by spam, idiots who abuse their status updates will be blocked or defriended by me and everyone else who isnt h…

Yeah, the biggest problem with these types of algorithms is that they show that the application developers don't trust the user to know what they want and trust the user to fix their own problems.

It's one thing for an application to provide sensible defaults. It's another thing entirely if it just second guesses the user.

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Post by yohui »

CamelCaseName wrote: post #248
mason55 wrote: post #244

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I noticed yesterday that you will get image results from YouTube but there’s no way to get the actual image it presents you. If you click on the search result it just takes you to the video. So I guess they need to start by enforcing the rules on their own sites.

In case you are curious, you can get the image by going to /0.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://img.youtube.com/vi/ /0.... [0] E.g. https://img.youtube.com/vi/HlxLo2sMnXg/0.jpg [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2068344/how-do-i-get-a-y...

Good tip. I would add that maxresdefault.jpg returns a higher resolution image, e.g.: https://img.youtube.com/vi/HlxLo2sMnXg/maxresdefault.jpg

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Post by wutbrodo »

Sacho wrote: post #141
wutbrodo wrote: post #137

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

Exactly. The number of wikipedia users is used when soliciting for donations. Donators and wikipedia users probably have some overlap, but that's also true of Google Search users and advertisers..

Right, which shows that the notion that "you're the product" is stretched so far to fit this idiotic platitude that it's more or less meaningless.
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