Let’s face it: we’ve all been guilty of doing this. Every time you wanted to search for an image and download it, the view image option on Google has always been the easy way out. While photographers and the sites who had uploaded those images stood to lose a hit or a click, users found it convenient. Not anymore though Google has decided to remove this option and make it difficult for users to get images with relative ease.
In a tweet from its Google Search Liaison account, the search giant revealed that, “Today we're launching some changes on Google Images to help connect users and useful websites. This will include removing the View Image button. The Visit button remains, so users can see images in the context of the webpages they're on.”
The move will certainly boost websites as it will force them to go the site and get an additional click. Quite often websites also disable right click option in order to save the image from being copied for free.
In addition to this, Google has also removed the “search by image” button. This button helped those who looked for images without any watermarks.
Earlier this week, Google announced a licensing partnership with Getty Images. Under the partnership, Google will modify its image search function in order to improve attribution of any contributor’s work. Google will also now make copyright disclaimers more prominent. Interestingly, two years ago, Getty Images had filed an official complaint against Google with the European Commission. Getty Images had accused Google of distorting search results in favour of its own searches.
The latest move comes as a part of the partnership with Getty Images. On the same Twitter account, Google confirmed this and added, “Ultimately, Google Images is a way for people to discover information in cases where browsing images is a better experience than text. Having a single button that takes people to actionable information about the image is good for users, web publishers and copyright holders.”
In a tweet from its Google Search Liaison account, the search giant revealed that, “Today we're launching some changes on Google Images to help connect users and useful websites. This will include removing the View Image button. The Visit button remains, so users can see images in the context of the webpages they're on.”
The move will certainly boost websites as it will force them to go the site and get an additional click. Quite often websites also disable right click option in order to save the image from being copied for free.
In addition to this, Google has also removed the “search by image” button. This button helped those who looked for images without any watermarks.
Earlier this week, Google announced a licensing partnership with Getty Images. Under the partnership, Google will modify its image search function in order to improve attribution of any contributor’s work. Google will also now make copyright disclaimers more prominent. Interestingly, two years ago, Getty Images had filed an official complaint against Google with the European Commission. Getty Images had accused Google of distorting search results in favour of its own searches.
The latest move comes as a part of the partnership with Getty Images. On the same Twitter account, Google confirmed this and added, “Ultimately, Google Images is a way for people to discover information in cases where browsing images is a better experience than text. Having a single button that takes people to actionable information about the image is good for users, web publishers and copyright holders.”
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