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One of the follow up tweets is more honest: >For those asking, yes, these changes came about in part due to our settlement with Getty Images this week (see als
by Buge 9y ago
One of the follow up tweets is more honest:
>For those asking, yes, these changes came about in part due to our settlement with Getty Images this week (see also https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017864/google-removes-view-image-button-from-search-results https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017864/google-removes-v... …). They are designed to strike a balance between serving user needs and publisher concerns, both stakeholders we value.
https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/964279749802512384 https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/964279749802512384
- dmitriid 9y agoIt's the same shit that happened to Google Books, really.
- dspillett 9y agoI'm perfectly fine with this, after all they have little choice because of the result from the Getty case, but now that option is gone they need to crack down on sites presenting different images when referred directly from Google than they present more generally: presenting an unaltered image to Google and a heavily watermarked one otherwise for instance, or sometimes the destination page redirecting off to something else if your request doesn't include a Google referrer or agent-string. These things are already against Google's policy and is basically the destination site being dishonest to the user (drawing people away from sites with the same content really but don't pretend to offer something else freely).
- mason55 9y agoI noticed yesterday that you will get image results from YouTube but there’s no way to get the actual image it presents you. If you click on the search result it just takes you to the video. So I guess they need to start by enforcing the rules on their own sites.
- CamelCaseName 9y agoIn case you are curious, you can get the image by going to https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/0.jpg https://img.youtube.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/0.... [0] E.g. https://img.youtube.com/vi/HlxLo2sMnXg/0.jpg https://img.youtube.com/vi/HlxLo2sMnXg/0.jpg [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2068344/how-do-i-get-a-youtube-video-thumbnail-from-the-youtube-api https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2068344/how-do-i-get-a-y...
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- schafx 9y agoThank you, very helpful! In Firefox you can make a Keyword Search shortcut for this by: - bookmark the above page - edit bookmark - replace <...video-id...> with "%s" - enter a keyword (e.g., "yi") - enter "yi 6e5B7EKVg48" in the location bar to find the image from a video (replace 6e5B7EKVg48 with your video's ID)
- yohui 9y agoGood tip. I would add that maxresdefault.jpg returns a higher resolution image, e.g.: https://img.youtube.com/vi/HlxLo2sMnXg/maxresdefault.jpg https://img.youtube.com/vi/HlxLo2sMnXg/maxresdefault.jpg
- mtgx 9y agoIt would be more honest if "in part" meant 99%-100% of the reason to do it.
- nothis 9y agoYou know, it's gotta be said that Google just shitting all over copyright just because they're big isn't ideal, either. They should be honest about their motivations, though.
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- slrz 9y agoYeah, right. Because linking to an image on a publicy accessible web server is shitting all over copyright law. Also, it strongly implies that the link creator hates puppies.
- kislotnik 9y agoCan we thank getty by popularizing free photography sites like unsplash? Any other alternatives?
- myfonj 9y agoOT-ish: for such questions there is an excellent web-app: https://alternativeto.net/browse/search?q=unsplash https://alternativeto.net/browse/search?q=unsplash … reveals several services, but personally cannot judge. (TBH, haven't known even Unsplash -- thanks for that.)
- thrilleratplay 9y agoQuite a few as it turns out https://github.com/neutraltone/awesome-stock-resources https://github.com/neutraltone/awesome-stock-resources
- amelius 9y agoGoogle, just give me the option to ignore Getty images altogether. Why does Google always think they know what is best for me?
- Slackwise 9y ago> Why does Google always think they know what is best for me? This is the entire ethos of the "AI Revolution" in tech. The algorithm "knows what is best for you". This will only get worse with more "AI" being applied to more tech.
- majewsky 9y agoNot just the AI revolution. For over a decade, I've grown increasingly frustrated with software suffering from overly-clever syndrome.
- pawelk 9y agoI'd rather use software that is predictable than predictive.
- NietTim 9y agoToo bad those algorithms don't know when I'm yelling at my computer because it's fucking up
- rock_hard 9y agoIf only folks on HN wouldn’t be so paranoid about microphones...
- Amygaz 9y agoThe problem with AI is that we are building it, with all our biases.
- mygo 9y agoThis is my gripe with Facebook and why I stopped using it. Biaaaaootch, I added people to my friends list because I want to see their posts. Ditch the dang algorithm and literally just show me everyone’s posts, in chronological order. That’s all you literally have to do. Don’t worry about me getting annoyed by spam, idiots who abuse their status updates will be blocked or defriended by me and everyone else who isnt having it. It’s self-policing. My discretion and the discretion of people on the platform is better than your dumb algorithm. But now I don’t use your app at all, because you thought you knew what’s best for me, and I kept missing out on people’s posts that I did in fact want to see, and that pissed me off more than whatever you’re trying to keep off of my newsfeed. Your value proposition is having my entire social network on one feed. You’ve done that. That’s all you have to do. Ditch the algorithm.