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 Posted:   Feb 16, 2018 - 1:46 AM   
 By:   DeputyRiley   (Member)

Today, from the latest in "bullshit that life on the internet randomly throws at you" file, Google announced that the "VIEW IMAGE" button is no longer available when you do an image search. Apparently they were coming under fire from users for ease of access to their content and "stealing" images without attribution or visiting the page and contributing to page views and ad revenue, etc.

Doesn't look like I'll be posting as many pictures online anymore. Whatever.

https://www.slashgear.com/google-removes-view-image-from-results-part-of-getty-settlement-15519814/

 
 Posted:   Feb 16, 2018 - 6:40 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

WTF?! Man, give it a few more years and the Internet will be completely controlled by our corporate overlords, making it a tenth as useful as it was.

Edit: WTF part two?! Getty's images are watermarked anyway!

 
 Posted:   Feb 16, 2018 - 11:30 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

That's not all Google is going. They are also forcing their idea of censorship upon any website that wants to use the advertising service, Google AdSense, to make money.

They also hide sites from search results while favoring others (almost completely of a certain political slant).

And two or so years ago they announced they are displaying websites in the opening search results pages that display on phone better. As opposed to content and relevancy and what the person searching really wants.


And more.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 16, 2018 - 11:32 AM   
 By:   Ado   (Member)

just right click, and then "view image"

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 16, 2018 - 12:29 PM   
 By:   dragon53   (Member)

The View Image feature was real convenient in locating different sizes of the same photo and was a real time-saver.
Thanks Google----for nothing.

 
 Posted:   Feb 16, 2018 - 1:22 PM   
 By:   dtw   (Member)

That's a bummer.
Hmm {starts checking out other search engines}

 
 Posted:   Feb 16, 2018 - 2:30 PM   
 By:   DeputyRiley   (Member)

just right click, and then "view image"

You're right!

Although, I had to right click and hit "open image in new tab" on my browser, because there was no option simply to "view image."

Easy workaround, folks, which makes the whole endeavor on Google's part kind of a colossal joke.

 
 Posted:   Feb 16, 2018 - 2:37 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

And some people go to Google Images -- I've seen this repeatedly in person -- and use their phones to snap a picture. And phones these day take amazing quality pictures.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 16, 2018 - 4:16 PM   
 By:   riotengine   (Member)

The View Image feature was real convenient in locating different sizes of the same photo and was a real time-saver.
Thanks Google----for nothing.


Very annoying. As an artist, this was very useful in finding reference shots.

Greg Espinoza

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 17, 2018 - 5:27 PM   
 By:   dragon53   (Member)

I used to use Photobucket to crop and reduce photos for the movie/tv news---but Photobucket is no longer free.
Now Google no longer provides different sizes for a photo.
Recently I've been using Snippet to crop a photo, then I use the enlarge feature on my desktop to vary the size of the photo and then download it to Postimage---but that only works for a few photos.
Google not offering alternate sizes is a real inconvenience---I hope there's a protest which might lead Google to bring it back.

 
 Posted:   Feb 17, 2018 - 8:36 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

INFURIATED by this news.

 
 Posted:   Feb 17, 2018 - 9:44 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Every good thing has it's heyday, then it gets mucked up and made worse over time. This is just another example.

 
 Posted:   Feb 18, 2018 - 12:58 AM   
 By:   DeputyRiley   (Member)

Now Google no longer provides different sizes for a photo.

Actually, similar to the workaround ado and I posted about above, there is a workaround for this as well.

First, right-click and "open image in new tab" (here you can copy image links or whatever)

Second, right-click and "search Google for image"

Then you'll be taken to the page where you can "Find other sizes of this image --> All Sizes/Small/Medium/Large".

It's like one or two extra steps than we're used to, and I don't know if it works for everyone (I'm using Windows Chrome browser), but I think everyone can relax a little bit because we're still seemingly able to do everything we just recently thought had become undoable. At least, until they figure it out or whatever, and block the workarounds.

EDIT:

Having trouble with this method of viewing the image by using "open image in new tab" or "copy image address. Maybe Google's already caught onto their oversight. Can't figure it out right now, gotta head off...if anyone else can make sense of this please post here! I thought I'd found suitable workarounds, but I may have been too premature in my celebration...

 
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