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Google Images Restored
- kyriakos 6y agoReally missed that view image button especially for Pinterest images that are pure spam
- ffpip 6y agoJust right click the image and press 'I'.
- kyriakos 6y agoI don't think you get the full size original image
- forgotpwd16 6y agoYou are. But wait for the image to load or you'll get the thumbnail.
- javawizard 6y agoThat button was removed in response to a lawsuit from Getty: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after-google-removes-view-image-button-bowing-to-getty/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after...
- tzfld 6y agoIs there anything good done by Getty since its existence?
- kyriakos 6y agoThey keep buying off smaller stock image platforms as well killing competition
- natch 6y agoWould love to see somebody make an image search site that lets you filter all that stuff out. It would be fine with me as a user if it respected no-hotlinking policies too. But the filter could just omit paywalled / registrationwalled sites and those that do trickery like obnoxious watermarks or showing one image to the search crawler and another one to site visitors. I have nothing against sites trying to make money. But sometimes I want to see just the stuff that is straight out there and isn’t wrapped up in dark patterns.
- poisonborz 6y agoThere were multiple scripts and extensions popping up to restore the feature right after it was removed. Eg. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhcelnjdmblfmjabdeclccemkghjk?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhce...
- EamonnMR 6y agoI used to love google images because you could find the context of an image and start a journey there to find new information. Pinterest killed that by creating an environment that rewards stripping the context away from images while aggregating them and then seo-ing it's way to the top of every search. Rendered it useless as a tool except for the occasional 'I need a reaction image stat!' punch line generator. If I need to find something now days I just need to find it via text.
- gchokov 6y agoSomeone in Google’s UX and Design department, really needs go out and breathe some fresh air. Is it only me, who dislikes 95% of the design decision of Google products in the recent years?
- toper-centage 6y agoGoogle is data driven and AB tests the hell out of their features, so I would assume these changes make them money somehow. Your personal preferences or anyone else's is merely a very small data point in their design process.
- thotsBgone 6y agoYes, companies are profit-driven always. Not customer-satisfaction driven, unless that's what will bring them the most profit (especially true for newer, smaller companies). This makes me wonder if there is some structure similar to a corporation which would maximise something besides profit, without either being out-competed by a corporation or turning into one.
- ghaff 6y agoCompetition ("out-compete") implies competition on some metric such as profitability. So, if that's the metric, then they'll be profit-driven. Of course, profitability can be optimized for over different time horizons--even if speculatively. For public companies, time horizons tend to be relatively short, or at least quarter-to-quarter profitability is important. A private company, however structured, can define out-competing however its owners want to so long as it can pay its bills and employees.
- smichel17 6y agoIt's not exactly what you describe, but you might be interested in looking into cooperatives. https://cdsus.coop/about/what-is-a-co-op/ https://cdsus.coop/about/what-is-a-co-op/
- astrange 6y agoPublic companies are driven by what their executives want, insofar as their owners aren't paying attention. If they were pure paperclip maximizers they would switch businesses more often, but you don't see coal plants selling fentanyl out the back.
- gpmcadam 6y agoThis is good but what annoys me most about Google lately is that all searches turn out to be product searches instead of images of a thing. Just makes me trust the results less and less.
- errantspark 6y agoFuck Getty Images. Fuck IP law. Fuck copyright. All that shit needs a massive refactor. I can't bear to think about how much harm has been done to software and human reality in general by lawyers and MBAs seeking to extract the maximum amount of value from things. I'm glad things like this exist, but so sad that they need to. EDIT: and as one commenter astutely pointed out, fuck Pintrest too, a perfect example of the hubris of SEO focused trashes with no morals or sense of personal responsibility; degrading the commons for their own gain
- amelius 6y agoYou forgot to mention Pinterest.
- gkoberger 6y agoWhat's wrong with Getty? They spend a lot of money to take pictures, and other people pay money to use them. How would you change their business model? EDIT: I hadn't realized that Getty is the reason for the removal of the view image button! I stand by my comment in general, however I do think removing that button is crappy.
- markdown 6y agoGetty charges $1000 for public domain photos. Fuck 'em! EDIT: They also fraudulently claim to own public domain photos and legally threaten people who use them, demanding payment.
- gkoberger 6y agoI don't understand your point. If you hate copyright and IP, then you inherently also have to believe Getty should be allowed to take public domain photos (or someone else's photos) and sell them.
- matttb 6y agoI'd never heard of this before so I searched it and the first result turned up this[0] (see lines 2-4/Exhibit A). Big jump from selling public domain images to seeking out payment for public domain images. [0] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3001353/Filed-Complaint-Exhibits.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3001353/Filed-Com...
- ubercow13 6y agoBut why that version? It wasn’t much different from the current version. I preferred the version before, when the page didn’t automatically expand and collapse and scroll around in a disorienting way.
- yudlejoza 6y agoAgree. The new UI is actually slightly better with the image view on the side instead of taking up the center of the screen, since we have widescreens everywhere. But both are worse than classic google images, which was from when? 2015? 2013?.
- tiagod 6y agoGreat work. It's usable again, finally.
- meibo 6y agoNice! The current image search is still a great product, with some filters, especially with the "find by image" stuff - this takes it to another level. Can't fathom how Getty was able to make them remove the "view image" button. Thanks copyright.
- therealmarv 6y agoJust use Yandex Image search. It also has a reverse image functionality and it does not censor as much as Google Images.
- ZoomStop 6y agoIt also allows for searching by size which of course Google removed with updates but helps greatly when searching for icons, wallpapers, etc.
- zerocrates 6y agoYou can still search by size on Google Images (though you're limited to fairly coarse categories of sizes). It's hidden under "Tools."
- 6357357457 6y agoJust use the Yandex image search. Yandex hasn't yet removed or crippled its face recognition-enhanced image similarity search capability like Google and Bing did (probably because women complained that it turned up their old nudes/ludes), and Yandex doesn't exhibit bizarre racial biases like this: https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/76372135/ https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/76372135/ Sad that Americans have to use a Russian search engine to get away from Google/Bing censorship, bias, and politicization.
- michaelmrose 6y agoI really like this in theory but if an adware company someday buys your addon I could be compromised. It's easier to use bing image search which has been better than google for images for a while now.
- _underfl0w_ 6y agoTFA is a github page, friend. If you truly care about compromise as stated, just build the add-on from source. No reason to point to nonexistent future threat vectors.
- michaelmrose 6y agoDo you remember Stylish? It was a very popular firefox/chrome addon with 2 million users which was sold to an ad company that started using it to siphon off users data. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/stylish-extension-with-2m-downloads-banished-for-tracking-every-site-visit/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/styli... The threat isn't nonexistent and having the source doesn't help as much as you might imagine. Most people can't read the source in any meaningful way and those that can might still trivially miss something malicious. In practice its only as safe as the meaningful analysis by skilled hands makes it in actuality. Realistically you would be lucky if someone notices several months after it started siphoning off your data and only if its egregious enough to get it kicked off of the extensions store.
- a2tech 6y agoIs there something similar for safari?
- zkmon 6y agoForget UX, the image search itself _doesn't_ work. Search for some known person's name. 90% of the image results will be from the side bars on LinkedIn page of that person, which have no relation to the search key words.
- judge2020 6y agohttps://i.judge.sh/last/Rare/chrome_mre6oqyjrU.jpg https://i.judge.sh/last/Rare/chrome_mre6oqyjrU.jpg
- pdimitar 6y agoI started using Yandex image searching. It's objectively better than Google for many queries. So is Bing/DuckDuckGo.
- Can_Not 6y agoWouldn't that be LinkedIn's fault for (presumably) not marking the sidebar as "not SEO content"? A few other websites have been destroying my searches this way.
- hartator 6y agoAt SerpApi, we'll be happy to sponsor this! Reach to me via email julien _at_ serpapi.com.
- flokie 6y agoThis including no results from Pinterest is a great combo
- aaron695 6y agoPirateBay for images is back! Not complaining, I love using the PirateBay to steal. I also don't makeup reasons I do it. It's for theft, because getting something of value for free feels good.
- lolc 6y agoYou think that downloading an image is stealing?
- aaron695 6y ago> You think that downloading an image is stealing? Do you really expect me to believe your are an archivist using a Google Image interface to get images to then wait the ~70 years of copyright to use them? These, "Piratebay has Linux torrents", or "a hash isn't copyright" arguments don't hold up in a court and don't hold up with mates at the bar. We are an abstract society, it's why we no longer live like animals. We are right now having to decide what things like Facebook and Twitter really are, beyond the technical they are internet companies. This add-on is great, and should not be illegal in any free society, but forcing Google to change was a different story.
- lolc 6y ago> Do you really expect me to believe your are an archivist using a Google Image interface to get images to then wait the ~70 years of copyright to use them? I'm not claiming to be. > These, "Piratebay has Linux torrents", or "a hash isn't copyright" arguments don't hold up in a court and don't hold up with mates at the bar. I don't know people who say any of that. > We are an abstract society, it's why we no longer live like animals. We are right now having to decide what things like Facebook and Twitter really are, beyond the technical they are internet companies. You speak in riddles. > This add-on is great, and should not be illegal in any free society, but forcing Google to change was a different story. So what's the story?
- rcoveson 6y ago> It's for theft, because getting something of value for free feels good. I love this too. I steal the mountain air when I hit the trails, I steal the sounds of nearby conversations, and I steal the memories of songs I've heard. Sometimes a friend will sing me something, and I steal that too. I play my music loud sometimes, and I hope those around me steal it. I've stolen things at my job from my coworkers, little ideas that belong to my company. They'll breed and have child ideas, stolen children, which I will make available for theft by others down the road. I even stole your comment; it had a little value, in its way. I won't pay you for it, even if you ask. In fact, if you ever write something and seal it away behind copyright, I can't promise I won't read it at a library in the future; you wouldn't see a dime. Finally: If anybody ever asks me for something I know, or something I am capable of reciting--be it music, poetry, fiction, whatever--I will help them steal it by repeating it. I will not turn them away out of some unnatural commitment to the idea that all valuable information has an owner who must "get theirs" in advance of any transfer.
- atombender 6y agoI started using Bing's image search when Google Images started going downhill. It's cleaner and more usable, with easier access to the original image. But Bing has unfortunately been going downhill, too. It does some double redirect that breaks the back button, and it often appears to be stuck. And its ads are intrusive. But the worst thing is how they inserted this thing called "Shop for similar", which is a completely useless widget inserted above the "similar images" sidebar widget. It's weirdly dissonant when looking at, say, a photo of people in immigrant detention centers and being offered sweaters similar to those in the photo.
- therealmarv 6y agoGive Yandex Images a try
- kemonocode 6y agoThe project's rather esoteric license confuses me quite a bit, as it seems to have a mixture of English and French, and I can't make heads or tails out of the French parts. Could anyone else help me out describing the license terms in plain English, please?
- unpixer 6y agoPlugging 'Jollo' into Wikipedia gets me a page about a defunct machine translation engine. This reads exactly like a simple license that went through several rounds of machine translation. Making some allowances for usage and spelling errors, as well as some outright guesses at meaning, here's a somewhat fractured full-English translation: See, far wanderer, confronted with raw, programmatic instruction in the most pure form. A hesitation, troubled to the terms that this license affirms. By a voyage to explore the mechanism and ponder the making. Ta da! The remedy: an egress without risk. Leave No Trace via seven principles: 0. Modify language in advance. Attach the Jollo LNT license with copies to distribute. 1. Not responsible for negligent coding of the program. 2. Not sympathetic for negligent coding of the program. 3. No permission to modify it under any circumstance. 4. No permission to distribute under any circumstance. 5. Respect the programmatic instructions. 6. (Do) not interfere with the harmony of a friendship. Edit: jollo.org is kind of trippy.
- kemonocode 6y agoYeah, that's more or less what I got out of it, so it's effectively source-available but not really open source software per se?
- rosmax_1337 6y agoExtensions like this keep my faith in the internet going, and a lot of other stuff in general going as well. Because it proves that for every moron you can find, there will be a decent person to counteract them. The problem is as always, it is easier to break things than it is to make things.
- RyanShook 6y agoLooks like a great extension, hoping they don't use it to steal my information since it has full access to Chrome!
- needs 6y agoWell, you can still right click on an image preview in Google Image and then select "Show Image" to get the image in full resolution, like the good old "View Image" button.
- triangleman 6y agoSomehow with ublock origin on firefox mobile, my google images search links directly to the original image. It's glorious.
- scpedicini 6y agoI got sick of having to open a new tab, navigate to google images, type in my search just to find a quick one off image. Having to do that dozens of times was really taking me out of my workflow. I wrote a windows app that lets you quickly search google images and copy the original image to your clipboard for ease of use when chatting or if you need to paste a quick image into a document you are working on. It's GPL-3 in GitHub: https://github.com/scpedicini/truman-show https://github.com/scpedicini/truman-show
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- faebi 6y agoFunny, it was the exact reason why I switched to duckduckgo for 99% of my searches. The day they did it, I switched because I had enough. I remember some intensively discussed post on HN.