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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 kislotnik »

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

Can we thank getty by popularizing free photography sites like unsplash? Any other alternatives?

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Post by fiblye »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #166
YouAreGreat wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google still manages to get far too many non-sociopathic employees, by feeding them a supernormal[1] morality surrogate ("googley values") industrially designed to draw moral attention away from Google. Many employees actually start to perceive whatever they do at Google as "good" because Google has these supernormally good "googley values" of Google's own manufacture. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_st…

I think it's more the $200k salaries and badge of having Google on your resume.

(Asking out of curiosity and not trying to be a smartass) But is Google still that impressive of a note on your résumé these days?

Most of the brightest students from my university off to work for or start innovative startups solving hard problems or they got research jobs at various engineering/energy companies, but a large number who were just kind of OK students got some fuzzy job at google doing who knows what but getting paid a lot to be there.

Sometimes I'm shocked by the dumb designs and whatnot that google puts out these days and wonder what kind of people they have making these decisions, then I think back to some of the people I went to school with and things start to click.

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

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Post by ijanos »

wutbrodo wrote: post #137
Iv wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

jokes on you, I pay them monthly.

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

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Post by amelius »

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

Google, just give me the option to ignore Getty images altogether.

Why does Google always think they know what is best for me?

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

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

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 am still surprised how easily corporations will hide their true motives, resolve any cognitive dissonance internally, and how easily others will forgive them.

People stopped caring a long time ago. It's became a new social norm. A corporation can't speak openly, they always need to "act in the best interest of the customer" and use other bs phrases. This battle has long been lost. Not just corporations - startups are equally bad, especially when recruiting employees who are supposed to work hard for their success.

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Post by amelius »

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.

> 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'm guessing that soon we'll have a browser extension that will do it for us.

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

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Post by appleflaxen »

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?

The problem is that it meaningfully degrades the experience on every other non-getty image.
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