Community fights against removing View Image button from Google search
Feb 20, 2018
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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You’ve probably noticed by now that Google has removed the “View Image” button from its Image Search. The decision helped Google to settle its dispute with Getty, but it has made many users unhappy. The community, then, is finding ways to reclaim the View Image button, somehow or another.
Since Google removed the “View Image” button, you can only view a hi-res photo if you visit the website where it’s hosted. According to Google, its settlement with Getty was only partially responsible for this change. The company hopes that this should balance “serving user needs and publisher concerns.” Google also emphasizes that this is “good for everyone”: users, web publishers, and copyright holders.
However, it appears that users don’t agree with Google. I must admit I don’t think it’s too much of an effort to just visit the website and download the image you want. However, while it works in theory, real life is something else. As one of the commenters pointed out, sometimes it takes forever to find the photo you want when you visit the website where it’s hosted. Occasionally you can’t even access the website. All this makes it harder for the users to view or download the photos they want.
Google has reportedly made the change in order to reduce piracy, but not all images out there are protected by copyright. There are plenty of public domain and creative commons photos that you can find via Google Image Search. And not everyone uses the “View Image” option to steal photos on purpose. Of course, many people do it unknowingly.
Because Google’s new policy is inconvenient for users, they are finding ways to make use of the “View Image” button again. Some are switching to other search engines like Bing, DuckDuckGo or Startpage. Those who prefer using Google are installing browser extensions that enable them to use the “View Image” button again.
There are ways to bypass the latest changes made by Google, and people have certainly found them pretty quick. Still, do be aware that many photos are protected by copyright. Even if you use an alternative method for accessing photos directly, keep this in mind and play fair.
[via Ars Technica, Lifehacker]
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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10 responses to “Community fights against removing View Image button from Google search”
There’s a Firefox add on that fixes this. (I think chrome too).
Says that in the article with link. :)
Community should use a different search engine. The service in question is a “free” service designed to sell ads. Community is the product being sold.
It is time for ” Community” to get a clue!
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I find myself wondering what the uproar is all about. If no one is doing anything wrong with the images, I can’t see why you can’t just view them on the site for which they were intended. It would make Pinterest a nicer place, that’s for sure. Sick of following dead links.
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Right click>open image in new tab.
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