Google Image removes View Image button and Search by Image feature - All because of Getty Image

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Google has removed the View Image button and the Search by Image feature when viewing an individual image within Google Image Search. Google announced this change on Twitter, saying:

Today we’re launching some changes on Google Images to help connect users and useful websites. This will include removing the View Image button. The Visit button remains, so users can see images in the context of the webpages they’re on.

The Search by Image button is also being removed. Reverse image search *still works* through the way most people use it, from the search bar of Google Images.

This seems to be in direct response to the concession Google made with Getty Images a few days ago around helping reduce copyright infringement through the popular search engine.

Here is how the feature looked before the change:

Here is what it will look like when this fully rolls out:

Also, notice how the “copyright” disclaimer is more visible within the search results.

Here is Google’s tweet:


https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/964226180776845312
Google SearchLiaison@searchliaison


Today we're launching some changes on Google Images to help connect users and useful websites. This will include removing the View Image button. The Visit button remains, so users can see images in the context of the webpages they're on.

2:53 AM - Feb 16, 2018

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Today we're launching some changes on Google Images to help connect users and useful websites. This will include removing the View Image button. The Visit button remains, so users can see images in the context of the webpages they're on. pic.twitter.com/n76KUj4ioD

https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/964226183180070912
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The Search by Image button is also being removed. Reverse image search *still works* through the way most people use it, from the search bar of Google Images.

2:53 AM - Feb 16, 2018

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[CIA Nigger]

Fuckin' Getty. "Nobody wants to pay 500 bucks for an unwatermarked image? Must be google's fault, better inconvenience everyone else just so we can cash a few more checks!"

Probably because they keep hiring on more web designers just for the sake of having them around, so in order for them to earn the paychecks they've gotta keep moving shit around and "fixing" what's not broken to make themselves look more productive.

I don't think having 2 employees with threads here, one in the legal area and one in the main lolcow forum, is a good sign for the company.

 

[The Lawgiver]

This is one of the stupidest things Google has done. Glad I use Yahoo

Too bad Yahoo is technically dead now because it's now just a skin for Bing.
(Unless the company that bought yahoo and made that change in the first place changed it back to normal Yahoo and I missed the news.)

 

[Yeeb-Renzo]

Salt thread when?

 

[Aib Ld]

See the above.

Like Pirate said, it only gives you the thumbnail.

"Copying Image Location" then pasting the image link works, it gives the full image.

 

[Desire Lines]

I like how they are trying to twist a removal of a feature as a positive thing: "see, guys, now you can visit all the cool websites! " Utterly insane.

 

[frozenrunner]

Fuck Google. Use TinEye for your reverse image searches. There has to be a browser add-on for it by now.

EDIT: Wait, reverse image searches aren't disabled. So this only applies to a virtual button?

Who cares? Drag and drop the image into the search bar.

Probably because they keep hiring on more web designers just for the sake of having them around, so in order for them to earn the paychecks they've gotta keep moving shit around and "fixing" what's not broken to make themselves look more productive.

All these shitty tech companies have to change things constantly so it looks--to the end user, to their stock holders, and to everyone else--like they're doing something substantial instead of stagnating. I'm sure it has more to do with brand awareness (a changing interface will never "fade into the background" and become invisible for the user) than it has to do with actual upgrades.

I mean, why else would Facebook constantly change their interface and upset their users? To stay "relevant." Even if it alienates people.

 

[AnOminous]

It's time to get rid of Google.

Also if think think current Google is the Google that came up with the search engine look at this:

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/kevin-batman-lucia-batman-freyasspirit.38344/page-3

It's about a psychopathic tranny named Kevin Batman and his troon Google buddies. Google is now populated by utterly insane psychos who are either just troons or think they're literally snakes and want their arms chopped off.

I'm not even making that up, one of the sick psychos who got that Damore guy fired literally thinks he's a female snake and wants his arms chopped off so he can be a snake.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

[the snake situation]

In the early 20th century, people like them were given padded rooms.

In the early 21st century, they're given jobs in tech companies.

 

[AnOminous]

In the early 20th century, people like them were given padded rooms.

In the early 21st century, they're given jobs in tech companies.

I just re-read my post and realized that while it read like hyperbolic exaggeration it was just the unvarnished facts.

How the fuck is this the world we're living in?

 

[Quijibo69]

Like Pirate said, it only gives you the thumbnail.

"Copying Image Location" then pasting the image link works, it gives the full image.

There's always a print screen button on the computer. Copy and paste it that way, just edit the image.

 

[vertexwindi]

I just re-read my post and realized that while it read like hyperbolic exaggeration it was just the unvarnished facts.

How the fuck is this the world we're living in?

The internet was a mistake.

 

[Positron]

In the early 20th century, people like them were given padded rooms.

In the early 21st century, they're given jobs in tech companies.

Tech companies with ballpits.

 

[💗Freddie Freaker💗]

It's time to get rid of Google.

Also if think think current Google is the Google that came up with the search engine look at this:

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/kevin-batman-lucia-batman-freyasspirit.38344/page-3

It's about a psychopathic tranny named Kevin Batman and his troon Google buddies. Google is now populated by utterly insane psychos who are either just troons or think they're literally snakes and want their arms chopped off.

I'm not even making that up, one of the sick psychos who got that Damore guy fired literally thinks he's a female snake and wants his arms chopped off so he can be a snake.

The snake tranny doesn't work at google. He's just friends with a lot of google employees and met Kevin in real life, presumably for booty sex. He seems to be unemployed.

 

[Somsnosa]

If I right click and choose View Image it shows me the full size picture. Maybe it's the browser you use? I have waterfox.

 

[The Demon]

Tech companies with ballpits.

do they pay extra for the crabs or is that free

 

[frozenrunner]

Tech companies with ballpits.

> company has a ball pit

> employees cut their balls off

The snake tranny doesn't work at google. He's just friends with a lot of google employees and met Kevin in real life, presumably for booty sex. He seems to be unemployed.

An unemployed tranny?!

 

[CWCchange]

I'm still pissed about Google Image Search's algorithm being changed over explicit material. I have to use Bing to look at porn, for fuck's sake!

 

[AnOminous]

People abandoning Google in droves will be a good thing.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Now I actually have to VISIT dA and tumblr? Fuck off.

 

[AnOminous]

JIHAD on Google!