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posted by martyb on Saturday February 17 2018, @01:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the waiting-for-an-addon-in-1..2..3.. dept.

Google settled a lawsuit with Getty Images and announced a multiyear global licensing deal with the company. One part of the settlement is the removal of the "View Image" buttons in Google Images searches. This is not entirely crippling, as you can still usually open the largest version of the image using your web browser's context menu:

Google is making a change to image search today that sounds small but will have a big impact: it's removing the "view image" button that appeared when you clicked on a picture, which allowed you to open the image alone. The button was extremely useful for users, since when you're searching for a picture, there's a very good chance that you want to take it and use it for something. Now, you'll have to take additional steps to save an image.

The change is essentially meant to frustrate users. Google has long been under fire from photographers and publishers who felt that image search allowed people to steal their pictures, and the removal of the view image button is one of many changes being made in response. A deal to show copyright information and improve attribution of Getty photos was announced last week and included these changes.

Google is also removing "Search by Image" buttons, requiring users to drag an image into the search bar instead.

Also at Search Engine Land and 9to5Google.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by anubi on Saturday February 17 2018, @05:42AM (1 child)

    by anubi (2828) on Saturday February 17 2018, @05:42AM (#639228) Journal

    I see where this is going.... I just got through trying to see some applications of Linear Technologies' LTC1167 RMS to DC converter measurement chip.

    I did not get much done today. I thought maybe I had some virus or something. It wasn't till I came here and saw this story that it all made sense as to where my problems had originated from. It was NOT my machine. It was the Congress of the USA. Thanks, guys, you really Fought for Me, just like you said you would, through the microphone, before election day.

    Before, I could see enough to see if the circuit was anything close to what I was looking for, and give me a heads-up on who else was messing with this design and what their results of that topology was. You know, you could call it copyright violation, you could call it sharing, you could even call it teamwork.

    To see what I was seeing, google "LTC1167" and click on the "Images" tab. Google gave me scores of thumbnails of what others have come up with. I would click on an interesting one for more detail... just got the same thumbnail all by itself. Hardly useful.

    Today's work was not very fruitful. I spent a helluva lot of time trying to go through loopholes of dead ends, javascript problems, and I felt I was like a John in a House of Ill Repute having to drop malware prevention shields in order to look at a schematic.

    You don't know just how bad I want to send my government my tax return, shrunk to a thumbnail, then force THEM to click on links, laced with JavaScript of unknown intent to get to the CopyRighted version, leaving them no recourse.

    But let me tell you - they may be able to dish this kind of crap out, but they flat won't take it themselves.

    Make America Great Again.... Throw Stumbling Blocks in the path of those trying to get something done, then charge to remove the stumbling block. The American Way. Or, lets just buy up everything, rent seek, and have the Chinese build our stuff. God knows we don't want to build it here. Or at least Congress does. Just send out for it. Offer dollars. They will deliver.

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    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @07:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @07:59AM (#639260)

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