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I wish we could do the same for Shutterstock and all these useless stock image websites that have totally hacked Google image search yet Google won't do anythin

I wish we could do the same for Shutterstock and all these useless stock image websites that have totally hacked Google image search yet Google won't do anything about them for some reason.

microtherion 6y ago
And lyrics search sites that index songs for which they don't actually have lyrics.
- dspillett 6y ago
  And the many TV/film sites that list "release date", "air date", renewal, season N+1, and so forth, in their page titles & tags even though the page does not contain that information.
nine_k 6y ago
How do you search for previews of commercially available images then? What I would like is an open protocol for media licenses. Some media-license.txt file with names of images (and wildcards) and license info. hero.jpg CC0 *.PNG PD # public domain # A free preview of a proprietary image. Teaser.jpg preview Everything not marked is considered proprietary, like now by default. Then sites like shutterstock could clearly mark their previews of real images, and galleries of free images could mark their images as free to use, etc. This could be reflected in the search engines' UI.
- zozbot234 6y ago
  Doesn't Google support this already as an advanced search feature?
duskwuff 6y ago
Huh? I don't see anything wrong with that. If you search for an image and Google shows you that photo on a stock imagery site, I'd count that as a win -- they've correctly pointed you to the source of the image, rather than a downstream licensee of the image.
- superasn 6y ago
  No like pinterest these sites too have heavily gamed image search and often end up pushing relevant search results. Also the results are often useless, for example they upscale 320x240 images into several resolutions like 1280x720, etc just to make sure it beats all search filters. This is definitely not a win imo.
paulcole 6y ago
Those are really helpful for making memes though.

I wish we could do the same for Shutterstock and all these useless stock image websites that have totally hacked Google image search yet Google won't do anything about them for some reason.

microtherion 6y ago

And lyrics search sites that index songs for which they don't actually have lyrics.

dspillett 6y ago
And the many TV/film sites that list "release date", "air date", renewal, season N+1, and so forth, in their page titles & tags even though the page does not contain that information.

nine_k 6y ago

How do you search for previews of commercially available images then? What I would like is an open protocol for media licenses. Some media-license.txt file with names of images (and wildcards) and license info. hero.jpg CC0 *.PNG PD # public domain # A free preview of a proprietary image. Teaser.jpg preview Everything not marked is considered proprietary, like now by default. Then sites like shutterstock could clearly mark their previews of real images, and galleries of free images could mark their images as free to use, etc. This could be reflected in the search engines' UI.

zozbot234 6y ago
Doesn't Google support this already as an advanced search feature?

duskwuff 6y ago

Huh? I don't see anything wrong with that. If you search for an image and Google shows you that photo on a stock imagery site, I'd count that as a win -- they've correctly pointed you to the source of the image, rather than a downstream licensee of the image.

superasn 6y ago
No like pinterest these sites too have heavily gamed image search and often end up pushing relevant search results. Also the results are often useless, for example they upscale 320x240 images into several resolutions like 1280x720, etc just to make sure it beats all search filters. This is definitely not a win imo.

paulcole 6y ago

Those are really helpful for making memes though.