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To make matters worse, Google Image Search removed the feature that let you follow a link directly to the image itself.
by lemoncucumber 8y ago
To make matters worse, Google Image Search removed the feature that let you follow a link directly to the image itself.
- eli 8y agothat was part of a settlement from a Getty Images lawsuit
- bogomipz 8y agoAren't all the Getty images water marked though? WOuldn't this have driven traffic to them?
- OtterCoder 8y agoWhy would it? Thumbnail watermarks are usually too small to see, and when you click to the image to go to Pinterest, all you'd see is the 'signup now' modal, with another group of thumbnails greyed out peeking around the edges.
- bogomipz 8y agoAs someone else noted Google has disabled this behavior.
- eli 8y agoNope, not all the ones people paid to license for just their site.
- faitswulff 8y agoA nice workaround is to right click the expanded image in the search results and click "view image" or "copy image location"
- pathartl 8y agohttps://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhcelnjdmblfmjabdeclccemkghjk https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhce...
- ry4nolson 8y agothis extension adds that back: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhcelnjdmblfmjabdeclccemkghjk https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhce...
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agosince others have the Chrome|ium extension linked already; a Firefox extension that re-adds that functionality: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/make-google-images-great-again/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/make-google-i...
- jacobsenscott 8y agoDuckDuckGo has a far superior image search just for this reason. You can actually get a link to the image from the search results. As a bonus the link is often a DuckDuckGo proxy, so you don't even need to send someone to the source site - which is usually awful.
- DannyBee 8y agoAnd when they get big enough, Getty will sue them as well, since this feature was removed as a settlement of a lawsuit.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoThen someone else will come along and offer exactly the same functionality...
- mkj 8y agoAnd the thumbnails are >100DPI, for modern screens.