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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[Dysnomia]

I thought my Google broke or glitched in a way that was pretty weird.



Welp, any other other way to get the fullsized image without going to the (possibly full of malware and useless junk) site?

What about right clicking then selecting copy image location? That's what I always do anyway. Although that does take you to the website. Plus you have to paste the URL. I don't think I ever used the button they took away.

 

[Sebben Crudele]

But removing the Search By Image button means less people will bother to find the original source of a picture in case it was reposted.
Somehow I feel they didn't think this through.

 

[The Demon]

But removing the Search By Image button means less people will bother to find the original source of a picture in case it was reposted.
Somehow I feel they didn't think this through.

when has a corporation thought anything through

 

[Sebben Crudele]

when has a corporation thought anything through

Fair enough.

 

[LikeicareKF]

Google can solve these issues by buying the entire internet and telling Getty to pay them or fuck off

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Getty Images is more to blame for twisting Google's arm into submission than Google is imo

Well Google shouldn't have bent over to them that easilly.

Fuck Getty Images and fuck Google. They both deserve any and all hate thrown toward them.

 

[Wraith]

This is balls. I thought ol' Google was supposed to be all left-wing environmentally conscious. Isn't all the extra loading of information and browsing using up more electricity and all that gobble-de-cock?

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

More reason to just stick with DuckDuckGo or Yandex.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Damore was right

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Joke's on you, Google. I'll just save the image on the link that you get on "View page info" on Firefox.

 

[Fox]

Google search is trash in general. It just got trashier now.

 

[DarkAlien]

So now I gotta click on the fucking image that is on Pinterest and Pinterest wants to force me tho open a damn account before letting me look around. Fuck me...

 

[Jequiti]

I used to click on the view image button by impulse, now I keep "saving" them. Thanks Google.

 

[Organic Fapcup]

Well, this is mildly inconvenient.

 

[AnOminous]

I just realized how fucking annoying this actually is.

Great job Google you fucking cunts, destroy functionality for no reason.

I wonder what deranged tranny had this "idea."

Seriously only a troon who has chopped off a functional part of his body for insane reasons could possibly think this was a good idea.

 

[sperginity]

"connect users and useful websites" by forcing you to go to a web page possibly riddled with malware to view a full-sized image.
Considering some of the weird stolen images/videos that show up with suspicious pages linked to them on google image search these days I can only hope the backlash is enough for them to remove this "helpful update".
However, knowing Google, They'll more than likely either ignore the complaints. Either that, or they'll delete the "hateful troll comments" en masse like they tend to do on youtube.

And Pinterest takes credit for images in their pins, so you have to sign up to see the website the picture originated from. If you look for anything related to home improvement your whole search is fucked. I refuse to sign up for Pinterest, guess I won't use Google Images anymore...

 

[One Man Bland]

And Pinterest takes credit for images in their pins, so you have to sign up to see the website the picture originated from. If you look for anything related to home improvement your whole search is fucked. I refuse to sign up for Pinterest, guess I won't use Google Images anymore...

Then there's sites Tumblr, where going to source is a crapshoot of either redirecting you to the tags search engine where the image is likely been long buried or no longer being tracked by Tumblr, or takes you to john-doe.tumblr.com/example+fanart/page/5 for a frequently updating 300+ page blog to try and track down an image made in 2010. So good fucking luck trying to track down or share your favorite artists now.

 

[CIA Nigger]

I just realized how fucking annoying this actually is.

Great job Google you fucking cunts, destroy functionality for no reason.

I wonder what deranged tranny had this "idea."

Seriously only a troon who has chopped off a functional part of his body for insane reasons could possibly think this was a good idea.

The one who thinks it's a better idea to cave into companies filing lolsuits than to fight back. I mean Google's on the level of MS and Apple size wise and those 2 are famous for winning every suit.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Suck my healthy penis Google.

 

[H4nzn0]

For Chrome Users, I've found an extension that adds the view image button and search by image back to the search.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhcelnjdmblfmjabdeclccemkghjk