Google search has always been successful because it was the best. Seems they don't want to be the best anymore.
Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
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#332Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
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#333Google image search has been anti-user ever since they switched to their new UI 5 or so years ago. It's just utterly terrible in every way. Just another step in that direction.
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#334Quotes 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 agree on the general point. Corporate culture and the meaningless ways of talking that go with it are both (a) extremely dominant part of overall culture and (b) extremely disengenious and repressed. We talk like this a lot, among colleagues, to customers, politicians talk this way. I'm not sure what's going on here though. It definitely isn't "some changes on Google Images to help connect users and useful websites…
It is not non-sense or meaningless though, and thinking that is dangerous. It is corporate propaganda and it is outrageously effective at shaping thought both internally and externally (internally being, perhaps, the most important portion). Linguistically speaking, the language we use has a material impact on how we think about the underlying ideas.
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#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you think every image company would want to be removed from Google Search results instead of building their services without the ability to scrape the big resolution images? How would users get on their websites?
It doesn't matter. Once one company wins in court, it sets a precedent. It attracts more companies to follow the same path as they'll think they have a better shot at winning. Google obviously wouldn't risk this.
It was a settlement, there is no precedent.
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#336Re: Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
#337Quotes 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…
> "Ultimately, Google Images is a way for people to discover information in cases where browsing images is a better experience than text."
That's my primary use of Google Images. I find that for a lot of things (at least things I'm searching for), that helps cut through a lot of the spam or generally lesser quality sites, even if the image itself isn't all that important to my search. Also, it's excellent when I don't know the specific name for an object... just use the best search terms I can think of for the object then browse images until I see one that's what I'm thinking of (or looks like it could be used for what I'm thinking of).
That said, I've also used it for grabbing images of something. But more and more often, I've used it just for searching in general.
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#338DuckDuckGo 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.
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…
Long long ago, I used to use Yahoo, Lycos, Infoseek, etc., and then I discovered AltaVista and I felt the similarly. The algorithms and relevance wasn't as good as what Google eventually came up with, but it felt like AltaVista had results that its contemporaries weren't getting.
DDG is starting to feel a bit like AltaVista in that regard.
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#339Earlier 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?
> 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 having it. It’s self-policing. My discretion and the discretion of people on the platform is better than your dumb algorithm. But now I don’t use your app at all, because you thought you knew what’s best for me, and I kept missing out on people’s posts that I did in fact want to see, and that pissed me off more than whatever you’re trying to keep off of my newsfeed.
Your value proposition is having my entire social network on one feed. You’ve done that. That’s all you have to do. Ditch the algorithm.
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#340Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Thank you, very helpful! In Firefox you can make a Keyword Search shortcut for this by:
- bookmark the above page
- edit bookmark
- replace with "%s"
- enter a keyword (e.g., "yi")
- enter "yi 6e5B7EKVg48" in the location bar to find the image from a video (replace 6e5B7EKVg48 with your video's ID)