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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.
TIL webcrawler still exists.
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.
'+' is dead, but you can (usually?) fake its role via quote-wrapping individual words - it'll force their presence like a full quoted string, but won't require them in sequence.
'-' is still working. It also works with the 'site:' tag, so you can do things like '-site:w3schools.com'.
Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
#313I noticed this yesterday. Totally ruins the product and makes it completely useless.
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#314Quotes 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…
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#315Next step: disabling "view source" in Chrome.
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#316Image search is one place where Bing actually beats Google.
Their results are nearly always better, I personally prefer their UI, and now they have the advantage of supporting this simple yet valuable feature.
It will probably take me some time to lose my muscle memory that leads me to Google's image search and get used to going to Bing instead, but this was a great catalyst for me to start changing my habits.
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I don’t believe that this is the sole motivator. As others have said, they could remove this for Getty images only (based on domain, based on reverse image search, lots of ways). But also, this seems like an absurd judgement, that if true they would want to highlight how the judgement had a very specific design fix as part of the settlement. Since Google isn’t highlighting any such absurd ruling’s specific language t…
>...there must be some other reason. If Getty can successful sue them, then any image rights holder can do so. Making an exception for Getty images doesn't resolve the underlying general liability or infringement. That means if another rights holder were to sue them for not addressing that liability for their images, now Google are infringing wilfully and subject to punitively increased sanctions or damages. That's r…
YouTube and many other sites have systems to work with rightsholders. It would be trivial for Google to allow Getty and others to manage their images that show up while still retaining functionality for the billions of images created by people who don’t care or who even explicitly allow Creative Commons usage.
Thus my suspicion. What’s a little sad is 15 years ago I would give Google the benefit of the doubt, but this reminds me how times have changed.
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t believe that this is the sole motivator. As others have said, they could remove this for Getty images only (based on domain, based on reverse image search, lots of ways). But also, this seems like an absurd judgement, that if true they would want to highlight how the judgement had a very specific design fix as part of the settlement. Since Google isn’t highlighting any such absurd ruling’s specific language t…
I think Google prefers to minimize the: "if this domain, and only this domain, do this special thing". Like you said, given that it would be absurd to remove a UI element based on some whim that it'd put them in compliance, I'm sure a major element of the plaintiff's litigation case hinged on this very feature.
They have many cases of this. They actively filter based on domain to comply with takedown notices. That’s the most public example of how they have a huge number of exceptions based on domain and file.
Of course, I’m sure they do this in an intelligent way rather than literally a bunch of one off kludges.
Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
#319Image search is one place where Bing actually beats Google. Their results are nearly always better, I personally prefer their UI, and now they have the advantage of supporting this simple yet valuable feature. It will probably take me some time to lose my muscle memory that leads me to Google's image search and get used to going to Bing instead, but this was a great catalyst for me to start changing my habits.
It has been for a long time, too. Bing lead Google on image search features for a solid 5 years (at least) before google made an attempt to catch up.
Now Google is losing features, although I wonder if Bing will need to do similar things for compliance?
Either way, check out their video search as well, you won’t be disappointed.