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

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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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[Trilby]

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

Thanks!

 

[Xerxes IX]

If bitching on twitter can get Patreon to revert when they changed how payments work, im sure this will also be remedied.

Someone would have to convince google that this will literally kill troons, then

 

[Jequiti]

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

You're my personal hero.

 

[The Demon]

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.

not to mention youtube being practically a monopoly

when all those advertisers were pulling out from youtube, they should've responded with "your loss, i guess you don't want to advertise on a platform that's almost exclusively used by millenials and gen Z"

 

[Chiang Kai-shek]

I wondered about that, thanks for nothing google.

 

[CIA Nigger]

not to mention youtube being practically a monopoly

when all those advertisers were pulling out from youtube, they should've responded with "your loss, i guess you don't want to advertise on a platform that's almost exclusively used by millenials and gen Z"

It's like those conservative radio shows or Fox News. The mainstream advertisers can boycott them under pressure and then some smaller ones will swoop in and buy the adspace anyways. Except this is one of the biggest sites in the world, not just some radio show.

 

[The Demon]

It's like those conservative radio shows or Fox News. The mainstream advertisers can boycott them under pressure and then some smaller ones will swoop in and buy the adspace anyways. Except this is one of the biggest sites in the world, not just some radio show.

youtube's always been in the red, and google can easily tank the costs anyway

 

[ForgedBlades]

This is a good Getty image.

 

[vertexwindi]

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

How long until Google removes it?

 

[thepianogeniusfromshine]

Well, know the

How long until Google removes it?

in that case better archive that shit. Fortunately it's also on github
https://github.com/bijij/ViewImage
If I didn't know any better, I'd swear Google made a deal with Pinterest so people would actually use their shitty ass site

 

[jewelry investor]

ixquick niggas represent.

 

[Marvin]

not to mention youtube being practically a monopoly

when all those advertisers were pulling out from youtube, they should've responded with "your loss, i guess you don't want to advertise on a platform that's almost exclusively used by millenials and gen Z"

Well, and beyond just that, why couldn't they give better tools to the advertisers? Like ones with finer control, so you can let them pick and choose which videos to advertise on.

The only objection I could think to that is that maybe it might violate some sort of privacy rule, by letting them target people specifically. But facebook lets you do that. Heh, actually, facebook permits you to target individual people based on their emails.

 

[AnOminous]

Well, know the

in that case better archive that shit. Fortunately it's also on github
https://github.com/bijij/ViewImage
If I didn't know any better, I'd swear Google made a deal with Pinterest so people would actually use their shitty ass site

I fucking detest Pinterest and outright blocked it at the IP level.

 

[Medicated]

Suddenly, through absolutely no action of their own, Bing has a search engine better than Google (it already was for porn tbh)

bing resembles the search engines of 2005, no matter what subject you type in for an image, half of it is porn. A true reflection of the internet. Unlike Googles dis-infected version.

 

[The Demon]

How long until Google removes it?

200 years