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Google Images now displays image credits based on IPTC Photo Metadata:
Rights-related photo metadata can now be accessed directly in Google Image Search results, thanks to a joint effort by IPTC, Google and CEPIC, the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies.
Google, the IPTC and CEPIC worked together closely to determine the best way to incorporate metadata in Google search results of images to identify an image's author and rights holder.
When users see an image in a Google search result, they can click the "image credits" link to see the image's creator and credit information, read from IPTC embedded metadata. Over the coming weeks, copyright notice metadata will also be added.
"Embedded IPTC photo metadata has an essential role for photos posted on a website," said Michael Steidl, lead of IPTC's Photo Metadata and Video Metadata Working Groups. "These fields easily show people searching for images who its creator and copyright owner is. We encourage all parties who post images on the web to fill in these IPTC fields."
Photo metadata is vital to guarding images' licensing and copyright information online, and essential for managing digital assets.
The IPTC Photo Metadata Standard is the most widely used specification for describing photos, due to its universal acceptance among news outlets, photographers and photo agencies, libraries, museums and other related organisations. Most major photo software vendors support IPTC's Photo Metadata Standard.
That's neat and all, but Bing is way more superiorer for image search.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Saturday September 29 2018, @03:41PM
I think the award for the worst image search that is still usable is duckduckgo. But even so, even duckduckgo's image search shows you the option to, you know, view the image, generally the whole point of an image search, whereas Google dropped that feature due to pressure from a buggy whip manufacturer ("Getty buggy whips", I think) pressuring them [steemit.com] to do so.
If you break your industry-leading product badly enough that both bing and duckduckgo are better than you, then you must be Google.
Adding back features that show you select metadata, but don't show you, you know, what you were searching for, is frankly not all that impressive.
Come back when your image search is no longer broken. There are already laws, rules, and guidelines in place prohibiting the misuse of copyrighted things. Leaving your product broken does not affect them in the slightest, it merely allows the buggy whip manufacturers to move on to complain about the next non-relevant thing. That's your fault, now, as much as theirs. Shame.