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It's right there in the article >Google has long been under fire from photographers and publishers who felt that image search allowed people to steal their pic

It's right there in the article >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. Using the context menu to "Open Image in New Tab" essentially does the same thing so the functionality is still there.

ComputerGuru 9y ago
> using the context menu to “Open Image in New tab” essentially dos the same thing so the functionality is still there. No, actually “view image” loaded the source image at source resolution while viewing the image loaded into the DOM would show you the re-encoded, lower resolution, smaller Google thumbnail version. Edit: actually it seems that Google has simultaneously deployed an update that makes the actual source image open so that might actually work.
- Zak 9y ago
  What I'm seeing on the current site is that the large preview seen on clicking a thumbnail is the original image, loaded from the original server and scaled in CSS. Nothing's really changed in terms of capability; the UI is just a bit more awkward.
  - akvadrako 9y ago
    That can't be true - or it would be very taxing to browse a page of 20MP+ images.
    - yAnonymous 9y ago
      Just fucking look for yourself? You could have done that in the time it took you to write that comment.
      - dang 9y ago
        In this comment and especially in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16323396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16323396, you've violated the site rules badly. You've also posted a bunch of unsubstantive comments and ignored our request to stop doing this. We ban accounts that behave this way, so would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and comment only in the spirit of this site from now on? That means being scrupulously respectful of others, and generally not posting unless you have something substantive to say and can do so thoughtfully.
    - gvx 9y ago
      Only images you click on (so that the larger preview pops up, with the Visit button and which used to have the View image button) load the original images, rescaled with CSS. The grid of smaller images consists of thumbnails.
      - akvadrako 9y ago
        I tested it and this doesn't seem to happen. Maybe it's only for small images or is on a best effort basis.
        GunlogAlm 9y ago
        All images you click on are fully loaded, images you don't click on are Google-hosted thumbnails. No exceptions.
        akvadrako 9y ago
        This isn't true for me. The clicked on images, at least of high resolution, are data urls under 1 MP. Exactly like the thumbnails from the grid.
        GunlogAlm 9y ago
        Are you sure you're actually clicking the images first, so they're brought up in the image viewer box with the other options available, and then right-clicking -> View Image/Open Image/whatever? If you are, then that's very strange, and I have no idea why that's happening for you and not for anybody else. What browser and OS are you using?
        akvadrako 9y ago
        Yes that’s what I’m doing but it’s not that strange, because it's what I would expect. It is too slow to load many such large images automatically. But FYI, this is Safari on OS X.
- aptwebapps 9y ago
  It was already like that and has been like that for years.
- davchana 9y ago
  I am not sure, but read somewhere on HN Google related article comments that what Google does is first load all image search page with own encoded compressed thumbnails, enlarged by css, and then async fetches the real images, replaces the thumbnails, and scales down by css to show as same size of thumnail. Edit: in this exact thread, another user too made same observation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16390022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16390022
- efa 9y ago
  Yeah, showing me the image at full resolution when I "Open image in new tab".

ComputerGuru 9y ago

> using the context menu to “Open Image in New tab” essentially dos the same thing so the functionality is still there. No, actually “view image” loaded the source image at source resolution while viewing the image loaded into the DOM would show you the re-encoded, lower resolution, smaller Google thumbnail version. Edit: actually it seems that Google has simultaneously deployed an update that makes the actual source image open so that might actually work.

Zak 9y ago
What I'm seeing on the current site is that the large preview seen on clicking a thumbnail is the original image, loaded from the original server and scaled in CSS. Nothing's really changed in terms of capability; the UI is just a bit more awkward.
- akvadrako 9y ago
  That can't be true - or it would be very taxing to browse a page of 20MP+ images.
  - yAnonymous 9y ago
    Just fucking look for yourself? You could have done that in the time it took you to write that comment.
    - dang 9y ago
      In this comment and especially in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16323396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16323396, you've violated the site rules badly. You've also posted a bunch of unsubstantive comments and ignored our request to stop doing this. We ban accounts that behave this way, so would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and comment only in the spirit of this site from now on? That means being scrupulously respectful of others, and generally not posting unless you have something substantive to say and can do so thoughtfully.
  - gvx 9y ago
    Only images you click on (so that the larger preview pops up, with the Visit button and which used to have the View image button) load the original images, rescaled with CSS. The grid of smaller images consists of thumbnails.
    - akvadrako 9y ago
      I tested it and this doesn't seem to happen. Maybe it's only for small images or is on a best effort basis.
      - GunlogAlm 9y ago
        All images you click on are fully loaded, images you don't click on are Google-hosted thumbnails. No exceptions.
        akvadrako 9y ago
        This isn't true for me. The clicked on images, at least of high resolution, are data urls under 1 MP. Exactly like the thumbnails from the grid.
        GunlogAlm 9y ago
        Are you sure you're actually clicking the images first, so they're brought up in the image viewer box with the other options available, and then right-clicking -> View Image/Open Image/whatever? If you are, then that's very strange, and I have no idea why that's happening for you and not for anybody else. What browser and OS are you using?
        akvadrako 9y ago
        Yes that’s what I’m doing but it’s not that strange, because it's what I would expect. It is too slow to load many such large images automatically. But FYI, this is Safari on OS X.
aptwebapps 9y ago
It was already like that and has been like that for years.
davchana 9y ago
I am not sure, but read somewhere on HN Google related article comments that what Google does is first load all image search page with own encoded compressed thumbnails, enlarged by css, and then async fetches the real images, replaces the thumbnails, and scales down by css to show as same size of thumnail. Edit: in this exact thread, another user too made same observation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16390022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16390022
efa 9y ago
Yeah, showing me the image at full resolution when I "Open image in new tab".