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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 jug »

prepend wrote: post #33

So it’s ok for google to scrape and save images and display them without compensating photographers (which I’m cool with), but not users? This is bizarre, anti user functionality. By default if the image is available on the web, it is meant to be seen. This is going to make high school PowerPoint users spend more time, and result in zero extra revenue and zero drop in copyright infringement. The more interesting ques…

Yes, I don't see the problem either.

Paywalled photos as from news agencies are already published in severely reduced resolution and often with huge watermarks plastered over the entire photo, if they are even on the public web! If you're publishing paywalled photos in public, high resolution, and perfectly usable for stealing, you are doing something wrong already.

Actually, for _any_ case of content in websites, if you rely on a search engine of all things (designed to spider your website) to protect it you are doing something terribly wrong.

I wish Google would just have removed the Getty Images from their search index altogether and be done with it. If they don't want them there, just remove them all already. I hate this sort of collective punishment for the entire web just because of someone's "special interests" that honestly seem to boil down to webmasters with "special needs"!

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

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Post by akkat »

oldcynic wrote: post #169
akkat wrote: post #93

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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?

FB Purity[0] includes cleaning link redirects and a lot else to try and make FB tolerable. [0] https://www.fbpurity.com/

Oh wow, that is great. I wonder why it is not here https://addons.mozilla.org/

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

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Post by OldArrow »

lostmsu wrote: post #124
nicolas_t wrote: post #82

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I love DDG but the problem is that google is still the best whenever I want to search something that's not in English or that's localized. So I still use google for that.

Try Yandex if it is available in your language.

How is Yandex any better then Google?

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

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Post by MasterScrat »

GunlogAlm wrote: post #147
kylec wrote: post #59

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This might just be the thing that gets me to switch. I use "Show Image" for the image search all the time.

You can still right-click -> View Image/Open image in new tab/etc., of course, but I do agree the Show Image button was handy.

Well no, it wouldn't be such a big deal if this was the case.

If you do that you usually end up with a low-resolution image on a url of the form https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?...

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

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Post by tux1968 »

icebreaker wrote: post #157

Google's "image search" has been completely destroyed by Pinterest anyway. In that vein, this doesn't make much of a difference.

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?

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

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Post by nothis »

Buge wrote: post #107
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…

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

You know, it's gotta be said that Google just shitting all over copyright just because they're big isn't ideal, either. They should be honest about their motivations, though.

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

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Post by GunlogAlm »

MasterScrat wrote: post #175
GunlogAlm wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can still right-click -> View Image/Open image in new tab/etc., of course, but I do agree the Show Image button was handy.

Well no, it wouldn't be such a big deal if this was the case. If you do that you usually end up with a low-resolution image on a url of the form https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?.. .

Do you? I don't. I'm using google.co.uk on PC, with both Chrome and Firefox, and can always freely get the image this way.

You do have to wait for the image to have fully loaded, mind, but otherwise it's quite literally embedding the image anyway - right-click, View Image, and you've got it.

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