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Google Removes ‘View Image’ Button: Good For Creators, Bad For Everyone Else

Google Images is pretty much the fastest and the most convenient way of finding photos and images around the web. But Google is tweaking it, changing the way things work.

In a strategy to prevent people in downloading copyrighted materials, Google has removed the 'View Image' button. This little but very handy feature, allowed people to view just the photo on its own inside their browser's tab, letting them download the image without having to visit the site.

While it was indeed useful for practically everyone on the web, this feature caused concern from people who created and published the photos in the first place.

Because people were able to download images straight from Google, websites are losing a potentially large audience and revenue.

What's more, photos on Google Images were viewed out of context, and people were provided less to no information about the photos' usage rights or about who to credit.

While Google removes the 'View Image' button, the search engine didn't remove the ‘Visit’ button. This is its hope for encouraging people to visit the website that hosts the photo. The ‘Search by image’ button has also been removed, making it harder to search for similar photos.

Google also makes copyright disclaimers more prominent.

With the change on how Google Images search engine work, people who want to download an image, need to first go to the photo's website, find the image, to then click (or right-click). Or, they can right-click the image from Google, and select ‘Open image in new tab’ to download it.

There is also an extension to ease the process out.

Google also kept the reverse image search, which is a good thing.

"Having a single button that takes people to actionable information about the image is good for users, web publishers and copyright holders," said Google, while revealing that these changes have come about in part due to a settlement the company made earlier with Getty Images.

The two have embarked on a multiyear global licencing partnership to solve copyright issues. While this change is welcomed by many image creators, the extra step is confusing to those people that are less tech-saavy, and can be frustrating to those who are searching images for legitimate purposes.

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17/02/2018
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