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Which search engine do you use the most?
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 25 2017, @01:37AM (1 child)
There was a time when Google had a path-directly-to-the-image thing when they were showing a thumbnail in Image Search.
(You had to parse the very long URL a bit, but the information was there.)
...then they dropped that and only gave a link to the whole page such that you had to find that same image among all the chintz, once you got to that page. 8-(
I discovered that, in their target URLs, ixquick had that sort of deep link which Google had previously had and that was often helpful.
Now, the URL of the search page in the address bar was completely useless for bookmarking (say that it took you 3 pages before you found the good stuff).
You couldn't open the 2nd/3rd/4th page in a new tab via drag & drop either.
Now they too have dropped that and have ridiculously long encoded URLs to get to the page they found.
So, their image search now sucks worse than Google's.
(ixquick always had a smaller database anyway.)
I've been back at Google for image searches since ixquick fumbled.
Even when Google shoots itself in the foot, they don't blow their whole leg off as others do.
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(Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Friday September 15 2017, @11:10AM
I dunno, if I look for an image using Google Image search, I click one of the resulting images and can then click "view image" - which on hovering over, provides a direct url to the image, not to the page.
So I'm not quite sure what you mean with "then they dropped that and only gave a link to the whole page".