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The Google "View Image" Button is Gone

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February 24, 2018
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Why isn’t there a “View Image” button on Google, anymore?

At first, we thought something wasn’t working, this week. The View Image was a cool Google feature, which would often provide a reasonably sized image. That had been a great research tool for us. It was faster than going to the Googled web page and looking all over the place for what appeared in a Google search. (Sometimes the Google image doesn’t appear at all).

But, not everyone thinks like we do. For some people, that feature was means of making it a little easier to steal images.

Getty Images, the huge stock imagery library (which has tens of thousands of photos we created), complained to the European Union’s antitrust commission. It has been reported that Google settled with Getty over their complaint. And, hence, the “View Image” feature is gone.

We will miss that feature, but strongly support justice for the intellectual property of creative professionals.

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WILDCAT54

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Here is a plugin to add the functionality back

Mozzila: Google Search "View Image" Button – Add-ons for Firefox

Chrome: View Image - Chrome Web Store

Brian StoppeeAuthor

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WILDCAT54 wrote
Here is a plugin to add the functionality back
Mozzila: Google Search "View Image" Button – Add-ons for Firefox
Chrome: View Image - Chrome Web Store

One of the cool functions of the original View Image button was the search components which it triggered.

Does anyone know if these are browser buttons which bring up the selected image or do they also trigger that previous search feature set?

Brian StoppeeAuthor

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https://forums.adobe.com/people/Brian+Stoopee wrote
One of the cool functions of the original View Image button was the search components which it triggered.
Does anyone know if these are browser buttons which bring up the selected image or do they also trigger that previous search feature set?

right click & choose "search google for image".

That's how it always was in Chrome. The view image button never triggered any advanced search options. At least not for me,

Gutterfish wrote
The view image button never triggered any advanced search options. At least not for me,

It did images size searches for Janet & I and some of our researchers.We didn't toy with it too much, without the button but we cannot figure out the image size thing. We can still get there—it just takes longer.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

<So you are in favor of removing tools which encourage your average, everyday Internet user to steal images (sometimes when they don't even understand that they're doing something wrong)?>

No because it's futile. Anybody can grab a screen capture.

Screen Capture Shortcuts For Windows and MacOSX – Complete Guide - Hongkiat

And of course there are various browser add-ons for grabbing screen captures.

Incidentally, Goggle is not preventing people from getting images. Hit the SAVE button and then View Saved. See screenshot.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Brian StoppeeAuthor

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https://forums.adobe.com/people/Nancy+OShea wrote
No because it's futile. Anybody can grab a screen capture.

Sure. But a screen grab is a different deal than some of those 3… 4… 10 MB images which sit out on servers and the Google feature accessed.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

But a screen grab is a different deal than some of those 3… 4… 10 MB images...

Well sure. But a right-click in browser is all it takes to find the full size image.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Ussnorway7605025

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whatever... my daughters school computer won't let the kids look up the word "therapist" because some pluck a duck didn't think things through before he jumped on the censorship bandwagon

Brian StoppeeAuthor

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whatever...

So you are in favor of removing tools which encourage your average, everyday Internet user to steal images (sometimes when they don't even understand that they're doing something wrong)?

D Fosse

Community Expert

My own photographs are reproduced around the world, print and web. I do occasionally see my images reproduced without proper credit. So let me just be clear that I'm fully aware of the problem.

In some cases I drop them an email explaining that it would be nice if they included a credit. But it depends on usage.

My main concern is my professional reputation. To that end, it's important that the work is seen. Anything that makes it difficult for people to see my work properly - I'm against that on principle. I want to make it accessible, and "View Image" does just that. So I don't want that function removed.

Now, if someone tried to profit, commercially, on my work - that's a different story. But that's usually not the case. In any case web publishing isn't a direct income source for me - but indirectly it could be, simply by being noticed.

Yes, for the record, I'm very much against stealing and copyright infringement. But it's not all black and white.

Ussnorway7605025

Legend

its a function of the browser but a lot of sites disable right-click as a BS way to stop poeple downloading their images... any coder | hacker knows how to get around it (if fact you can Google it )