People looking for images on Google often want to browse through many images, looking both at the images and their metadata (detailed information about the images). Based on feedback from both users and webmasters, we redesigned Google Images to provide a better search experience. In the next few days, you’ll see image results displayed in an inline panel so it’s faster, more beautiful, and more reliable. You will be able to quickly flip through a set of images by using the keyboard. If you want to go back to browsing other search results, just scroll down and pick up right where you left off.
Here’s what it means for webmasters:
- We now display detailed information about the image (the metadata) right underneath the image in the search results, instead of redirecting users to a separate landing page.
- We’re featuring some key information much more prominently next to the image: the title of the page hosting the image, the domain name it comes from, and the image size.
- The domain name is now clickable, and we also added a new button to visit the page the image is hosted on. This means that there are now four clickable targets to the source page instead of just two. In our tests, we’ve seen a net increase in the average click-through rate to the hosting website.
- The source page will no longer load up in an iframe in the background of the image detail view. This speeds up the experience for users, reduces the load on the source website’s servers, and improves the accuracy of webmaster metrics such as pageviews. As usual, image search query data is available in Top Search Queries in Webmaster Tools.
I was actually just thinking today how the image search would be better if I could keyboard through each pic. How intuitive!
ReplyDeleteI like this Image Search update because update will increase CTR as well as better search experience.
ReplyDeletehttps://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/websearch/9qt4e8ji_PA/dtWhvub9X2MJ
ReplyDeleteI suggested this type of mechanic a little while back- elated to see that it's going into effect.
It'll be shown the title of the page, domain, etc... What if the image is hosted in the cloud??
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding me? Im blocking the Bing crawler already because Microsoft implemented a similar concept a while ago and now you are doing the same?
ReplyDeleteIm really disappointed and i dont think anybody will klick on any links as you discribed!
Thank you for share :)..
ReplyDeleteThank you Google :=)
Awesome update!
ReplyDeleteThanks Google!!
Time need very thing more fast and more fast. A good improvement in making image search fast
ReplyDeleteSo you saw that Bing has a far better image search, waited more than a year, copied the idea, tweaked it a little and now tell the world Google is so innovative?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bing.com/images/search?q=earth&view=detail&id=FD378FC2CB93CC376D3E4CA93A353197E863C654
Google is getting way to arrogant, this might bite you guys in the tail some day.
Thanks google .. I waited for this feature for long time.
ReplyDeleteI hope you will not remove current "basic" version of Google Images (actualy, old design), since I prefer it over current "standard" version and this new one. I prefer to use mouse, so I don't care about those keyboard stuff.
ReplyDeleteMore information in images is something I've been waiting for a long time. I now wonder when when their image search (search by image) will become better.
ReplyDeletesuch a great improvement!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAre Exif Data Going to Play a more important role ?
ReplyDeleteIt's a good redesign, much better than the old one.
ReplyDeleteI have some ideas which I think would make Google image search more awesome, check it out: A Better Image Search for Google
What Google is doing with the images on websites is simply a robbery, as is storing pictures that are on web sites, you can not only be presented and not send traffic to the product owner of the image.
ReplyDeletegreat thk u
ReplyDeleteI dislike this new viewer ... before people no longer repaired if the image belonged to a site, now with this gray background will be impossible ...
ReplyDelete*Sorry my english. :-P
That's a great innovation. Google is something else. I like the way you put webmasters in mind while doing your thing. This serves a dual purpose, increases a website's pageviews and gives a users a better experience. Can't wait until it comes live. Hongyi thanks for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure if my contracts with Getty and other image agencies allow you to use the images for which I paid and for which I (and only I) was granted the right to use them. Thumbnails and the former frame solution were advertisement and that's fine with the contracts, because this happened within the context of our website. But displaying the images in full size without proper copyright note and outside our source code means USING the image outside our website. Which is not covered by the contracts.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't complain, but we had exactly the same lengthy and expensive discussion regarding Pinterest a while ago. Removing the context of our website and removing the copyright notice is outside the borders of most professional image contracts, so we had to take measures to prevent people from pinning our images, otherwise we'd have to buy astronomically expensive worldwide licenses.
Of course, whether the information you give about the source of these images plus the little hint for possible copyrights can be accepted as "within the context of our website" is something lawyers and courts have to decide. And they will do so. I'm just concerned that I have to start this discussion in my company, that we have to pay the lawyer in advance and such like.
But I don't want to be purely negative. It's just - what I'd really appreciate would be some kind of helping information from you instead of simply rolling out this feature and leave the discussion (and the costs) to other people. I understand that a lot of websites use their own images and a lot use images under the Creative Commons license and similar stuff. However, many of these big brands which you wanted to reward in the rankings with some of your latest updates rely on high quality image agencies to please their visitors with the best imagery possible.
For as long as this question is not answered, I feel urged to block your bot from indexing our images to avoid possible legal consequences for me. So instead of rewarding our attempt for high quality content, I rather feel penalized by this change.
I love it. How can i get the script to use it on my websites? Is it open source? Please would be great you share it!
ReplyDeleteGoogle Images. The most comprehensive image search on the web. ... Advanced Image Search. Calling all young artists: share your best day ever with Doodle ...
ReplyDeleteDoes look similar to Baidu !
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ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this very informative post! This is so interesting to know. I really love reading your stuff being posted her
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its good concept it will save our time it doesnot matter whether bing is using or Yahoo is already using what matters is saving our time .
ReplyDeleteGoogle updating the search interface through the pictures made it very similar to a similar service at Yandex https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-t4kaimg6XUU/UQIgUVVV3fI/AAAAAAAACtA/GE4KpAkutj0/s469/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA+%D0%BF%D0%BE+%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80.png
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My concern is:
ReplyDeleteIf user can directly go to image hosted on my web server why s/he will land on my website? I create content for a photo-website so people can come and visit my web pages, however if they are now directly going to images by clicking on show images, this will be a disappointment.
I found it very interesting for a lot of reasons, for example reading without opening another page.
ReplyDeleteBut I think it could be useful to know also the place (when it is possible, of course) where the picture was taken.
For example.
If I search "Colosseo" I find a lot of pictures, but maybe it is quite different for a user to find pictures that were taken in Rome ... maybe users have a special feeling about that..
Anyway, thanks Google!
Great job Google! Now you are stealing from us! Great job!
ReplyDeleteOn the first hand you are using our hosting traffic to show the image, and on the other, our website become useless that way, because nobody will ever visit the original page of the image.
And something else. IS Google a search engine, helping people to find helpful websites or a gallery, which generates content, using images from other websites?
ReplyDeleteohh no, my wallpaper site is dead, but google is the best
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I saw some big drop in the traffic for the specific keywords matching the image related visits to my website http://www.grandcanyon-nationalpark.org . I am not sure if this change will be good for many website owners.
ReplyDeleteThis new feature will be very bad for copyright protected images!
ReplyDeleteFrom an user point of view it is supercool but now nobody will check if the image is copyright protected... or who is the author.
Unfortunately, I have to agree that this may well be a step too far. Instead of showing thumbnails and linking to the original website for the full image, you seem to be showing very large images without the surrounding page or the context on a page entirely of your own.
ReplyDeleteThis immediately raises a question about copyright violation: you remember the case Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation and the question of search engines using copied images? Small thumbnails = fair use but large or original images - that went unresolved.) Certainly if you were to start running advertising against a page showing large images from a website entirely out of context, I think that would be a very big "no no".
I can only think that this will lead to more website owners blocking the Google Images bot if they feel they are going to lose traffic or income as a result. Sorry to be negative.
Congratulations Google!
ReplyDeleteAlthough I'm a creature of habit, you've messed up my hover feature for the images so now I can see no info or context, and I checked out Bing image search (thanks to another post here), which I never liked in the past ... and much to my surprise ... their image search is great!
So well done! you got probably the most habitual guy in the world to get up and leave for another source!
Goodbye Google ... have fun rearranging the deck chairs ... etc.
Somebody in Google needs to be fired.
ReplyDeleteGreedy, shameless creatures! You are stealing my content and bandwidth! Damn you Google!
ReplyDeletenow only receive visitors who spend money on backlink and thus appear in the first place, to this if you should find a solution.
ReplyDeletenow spend bandwidth per face
it really looks better
ReplyDeletebut can't see the new image search yet using Google.com.eg
Hmm proving a link to the original image takes it out of the website's context and so any copyright information and indeed showing it so large probably violates most website's license agreements for using the images in the first place.
ReplyDeleteThis is almost a gallery scraper type site. This and the stuff bing are doing is eventually going to end up with a lot of lawsuits. If you index the thousands of images I have licensed from Fotolia, Getty etc and show them in such a large size I'd bet they will be wanting some compensation from Google too.
Show a small image and a link to the website page (not the jpg). Do your job as a search engine and stop trying to be a content provider without paying the cost.
Hurrah, this feature what I was looking for long time.thanks admin for this feature.
ReplyDeleteThis is really good progress of the Google team work.. well done..
ReplyDeleteIf Google REALLY cares about the fact that they're **stealing** content from publishers, "four" click-through links aren't enough. Especially when one of those links -- "View Original Image" -- leads the visitor to the full-size image itself, NOT the page where the image is located. In other words, the website's server is taxed so the full-size image can be loaded, but they get NO visits and NO potential revenues. How is that fair? How would Google like to see its own content appropriated by others in such a manner?
ReplyDeleteYou want to be fair to publishers? Simple: GET RID OF THE "VIEW ORIGINAL IMAGE" LINK. If Google Images visitors want to see the full-size image, THEN VISIT THE WEBSITE WHERE THE IMAGE IS LOCATED.
google has started stealing images from websites.
ReplyDeleteHow can you justify that you are displaying images from websites of other people on Google Network and place one link. This is called scraping images.
i completely support what Andre has said above. Google has started stealing images and i feel this should be a good lawsuit.
ReplyDeleteIts a fantastic feature.. Moving forward to refinement of searching experience. Congrats Google Team!
ReplyDeleteReally, really, really, REALLY HATE the new image search! Itnow takes MUCH longer to determine whether the image is linked to content I was searching for. I HATE IT! Hate it!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis would be much more useful if the metadata included showed more info about the originating source of the image and how to contact the image creator. I am a professional photographer and I was excited to hear about google including metadata in search results, but the metadata does little to help identify the image creator. The metadata displayed should include contact info for the creator of the image/photo, copyright information, and other useful identifying information. Simply displaying a what website an image was found on does little to help people find the original content creator in today's viral internet culture of click, copy, and paste. I see very little use for this new feature and am really disappointed about the lack of respect for content creators copyright.
ReplyDeleteHow about giving users a choice in what users want? I want what I got from Google Image search before this craptacular change. It's more frustrating to use. I can't see which website an image is coming from anymore BEFORE I choose to open it up in a new tab. I prefer being able to see the thumbnail get a little bigger, see the source website BEFORE I click on it. The way I see it, it will take me LONGER to find what I'm looking for! Was this your intention? You just keep making google image search worse.
ReplyDeleteI need to be able to disable this large image display because my websites are image-based and I will get fewer visitors.
ReplyDeletePlease provide webmasters with a tool to block images larger than thumbnails.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
ReplyDeleteThis is completely terrible. It's only useful on a phone. I'm really tired of everything continually being dumbed down for smart phones. I'm already looking at a large thumbnail that clearly shows the image. It's just another annoying level I have to click through to get to see if the page is something I want to investigate further or not.
ReplyDeleteGoogle Should be sued for copying images without permission of webmasters.
ReplyDeleteWebmasters buy license for images from different agencies including Getty Images, InfPhoto, PrPhotos.
Google is now displaying those images on its network without paying anyone.
This should surely put Google into legal trouble.
Google Images. The most comprehensive image search on the web. ... Peek ahead at image results with new related search previews.
ReplyDeleteThe new image search SUCKS! You have to go through three steps to search for a similar style image. You can't shift-click link to open in a new window. I hate when they try and think for me.
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely wrong in priciple. Google is just another website like any other, except of course the big bully. If I was to have a feature on my webpage that showed up images from anothers web page it must be copyright infringment! What next? Instant preview becomes the way to read information from a website without even the need to visit the site!
ReplyDeleteShame, shame shame on you google!
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.datagifted.com/have-a-great-fun-with-google-image-search/
Nao gostei, quero fazer voltar como era antes!
ReplyDeleteGreat, another way to steal large images without attribution, as bad as pinhercrap thieves--thanks very much for enabling more idiots to take images of my work and either claim it as their own, attribute it to someone else or pin comment that they too will/should/can "do this"
ReplyDeleteAnd an OPT OUT code would be good as well--not that the pinhags pay any attention, but wth, at least i can try to protect...
ReplyDeleteGreat job, Google! What's next? Parse each website and show its content on your own pages?
ReplyDeleteThe redesign is cumbersome and requires additional steps. Used to be so simple and intuitive with plain old thumbnails. Was easy to quickly scan, compare, contrast, choose. Don't like hearing that the new blow-up format infringes peoples' copyrights, and discourages users from going to websites. The idea that google is acting like a website itself, using other peoples content, sounds pretty devious. Also, very discouraging that this whole redesign may be prompted simply to cater to smart phone needs. Ugh.
ReplyDeletehowever that cool..
ReplyDeletenice job for google
Sorry if I don't agree with you. But this new image search is STUPID!!! At least, put a button which people can click to switch to the previous version!
ReplyDelete2 Suggestions to Google team.
ReplyDeleteThere should be an option to go back to previous version if user don't like it - honestly - i didnt like new feature.
It really hard to check images via mobile phone, earlier version was much faster and easy.
Well, it is easy to use - but it's killing my biggest web site (a photography site) which is also my main source of income. In the past few days my page views have been cut in half while my bandwidth usage has increased - thanks to Google's hotlinking of high resolution photos.
ReplyDeleteIf this continues it will force me to either make some dramatic changes to the site (ie: removing all high resolution images and forcing the user to jump through a bunch of hoops to get them) or it will put me out of business all together.
I really don't understand why Google insists upon harassing image publishers in this way... for all other types of content Google allows the user to find the content, but sends the user to the page to read the article or watch the video. But for image publishers it simply provides an easy way for people to access our content while circumventing our websites completely. The least you could do would be to disable right clicking on the hotlinked image and get rid of the "view original image" button so people would have to come to the site to download the content. It's only fair...
I know user experience is paramount, and I'm all about share and share alike (I've even released all of my photos into the public domain.) But bandwidth costs money, and publishers do have to make a living, and for most of us that means we rely on page views and ad revenue. Is this groovy search feature really worthwhile if it puts the publishers out of business and ultimately means that quality images are being removed from the web because we simply can't afford it anymore?
Das wird sicherlich noch spannend mit den Bildrechten ;)
ReplyDeleteTotally agree with EcoCatLady. I feel very sorry for individuals who have websites that are primarily based on images or photography. They will be hit extremely hard by this. My travel site has had over a 50% cut in google image search traffic so I don't know where google gets their numbers from. Adsense revenue is down to, so this may turn out to be a double edge sword for google.
ReplyDeleteTo help people find pictures quicker, the search giant is releasing a new layout with results and metadata available in an inline panel.
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ReplyDeleteI must echo the sentiments of nyctreeman and ImageFan. This update is terrible and annoying. I really miss the hover feature and the ability to see the source site as well as enlarge the images. A large portion of my work involves looking at images via GI and this update has made my work much more difficult. Please consider giving an option to return to the old image search to those of us who liked it just fine. In the meantime, I've switched to Yahoo.
ReplyDeleteIf anybody comes up with a workaround for Safari users, please share. Thank you.
this is pretty good invention by Google from the SEO point of views. will it will also be applicable if i have optimized a site of a poltiician and will it show in the top list of politician when you search Indian Politician
ReplyDeleteit's slower. the result need so long time to load images.
ReplyDeletethanks for the information.
ReplyDeleteso, I lost 50% of my visitors (3 sites) from google image search, but the bandwidth usage is THE SAME. All images are hotlinked and your "test results" for ctr to host sites are completely false.
ReplyDeleteGoogle this is very bad move for webmasters.
Google should face copyright infringement for hotlinking to images.
ReplyDeleteIt not duty of every webmaster to safeguard his images from google's stealing.
Where have the All Sizes and Similar links gone?
ReplyDeleteThe same here - image search traffic down, bandwith up due to Google hotlinking my photos :(
ReplyDeleteI forgot to add - traffic is 50% down...
ReplyDeleteShame on You google for stealing my images. How can I block You?
ReplyDeleteGoogle lies us, the webmasters.
ReplyDeleteGoogle violates our copyrights by using our images without our permission. Google should send the visitor to the hosting page, not to offer to visitors the images directly on Google, they do not have the copyright of the images, they will be sued because of this.
We lost a lot of traffic because of this bad change. Our hosting is more expensive and the revenues are cut by more than 50%. Also, we lost the AdSense revenue and you, Google, you will see this change on your back. Your AdSense revenue will be cut by >50%.
Send the visitors to the hosted pages, not to Google (you are a search engine, not a content site). The images are copyrighted by us, not by you, Google.
Google, please stop stealing our images. Many companies will sue you.
YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY A LOT FOR THIS. THE WEBMASTERS ARE DISCOURAGED AND FINALLY, KILLED BY YOU, GOOGLE.
I forgot, YOU LOST YOUR REPUTATION. After this worst change, you are and will be a big ZERO into our eyes (webmasters).
ReplyDeleteThank you, Google.
I would like to be able to look through the photos I get back from a search and mark the irrelevant ones so your image search can learn and do better next time.
ReplyDeleteI think clicking on gray frame to go back to the main image search board will make more sense than clicking on the low contrast closing arrow..
ReplyDeleteAnyone who has a lot of images knows that Google scrapes images in a blog post within a couple of minutes, and then comes back an hour or so later to get the actual text content! Images are KING on Google, and it's funny (NOT) that they never admit this.
ReplyDeleteSo now you are STEALING all images by letting people lift and copy images without even going to the site!!!! Full size!!!
This is unethical and totally breaks copyright law. Btw, your tiny statement that "images MAY be subject to copyright" is a big fat lie. ALL images are copyrighted automatically - read the US Copyright Act sometime.
So now those of us who actually create these images - cartoonists, artists, designers, photogs - will not only lose traffic, we'll lose our only work - OUR OWN CARTOONS!!!!
I am beyond disgusted and am going to disallow all images immediately. You suck.
OK... this time I'll attempt to be at least a bit constructive.
ReplyDeleteIf you're gonna offer up our content to the public, using our bandwidth, completely bypassing our sites, the least you could do would be to offer us the opportunity to somehow monetize this use of our material.
So maybe the site from which the image was taken could have the opportunity to place ads (Google ads, of course) on the panel where our image is displayed?
I really hope something changes quickly, because sites such as mine, which are creating and serving visual content are really being hammered by this change. I'm already trying to figure out a new line of work because my page views are now down 60% and still falling. The sad part is it's not like any fewer people are using my images - they're just conveniently bypassing my site to do it.
Why does Google want to put its own publishers out of business? This just makes NO sense to me.
If google didn't already have enough of our personal lives, with this new search technique they'll have it all. Horrible.
ReplyDeleteToo bad google doesn't take into consideration what their users think. If they did, the value of google might increase. POS
ReplyDeleteThis new image search is crap. It doesn't improve the 'user experience' it improves the traffic generated within your site. Linking to the file location benefits no one - especially our site where all of YOUR ads are located. We spend thousands of dollars a month in contracts with photo agencies so that we can legitimately post images on our site - for what? So you can post our full sized images without the readers actually having to go to our site? Thank you. We were down 20% on Monday and 30% more on Tuesday. This whole thing is very frustrating.
ReplyDeleteThe Google Image Bot is thrown out now after a decrease of over 70% Visitors on our non profit Art Site. We can not allow google to make money with free art.
ReplyDeleteThis affects around 25000 Images which will be removed from the Google Search sooner or later including some hundred images which were on top positions before.
Google, your feedback is here, all people criticize you because you killed us, we will no longer use Google because of this new shitty image search, you steal our content and use our bandwidth, in return we do not get any visitor so you bypass our copyrights and you will pay for this and will regret a lot because you will not be loved as before, now you are an lying evil and we, webmasters, will sue you.
ReplyDeleteYou must send the visitors to our websites and you and we will be pleased because we generate you the income from AdSense.
You have BAD reputation now and if you did not repair your mistake you will become the biggest rival for us, webmasters, and not only.
You know you're killing website image ownners, right?
ReplyDeleteThis update drop the traffic of my blog site with 50% and you keep tell me that is good for me?This is bullshit i dont like it!
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ReplyDeleteI had a 50% drop in visitors, it's great that Google improved the experience for users but when it comes to webmasters it pretty much ripped them off. Instead of serving search results what Google made is one massive image site where Google itself hotlinks the images of other people and wastes hosting bandwidth that was paid by the webmasters. Who is stealing content now?
ReplyDeleteThis is outrageous, the more I think of it I am sure google is definitely stealing my content, the question remains why would I even create any more content when it looks like it's all done by google, I will send half the hosting bill to google.
ReplyDeletea message to webmasters, enable Hotlink protection it will prevent images the "view original" button from working which is prove that google hot links my images.
ReplyDeleteBut will hotlink protection won't influence visability in google?
ReplyDeleteDamit "stiehlt" Google Inhalte von anderen Webseiten - das ist nicht in Ordnung! Beim anklicken eines Vorschaubildes MUSS auch weiterhin zur Webseite des Bildes verlinkt werden!
ReplyDeleteThus "steals" Google content from other websites - this is not ok! When you click on a thumbnail MUST continue to be linked to the website of the picture!
Hello Google I am going to fire some persons worked for a site with huge visitors and international.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand hwo you can allow this...
How you can avoid to monetize for publishers?
It is clear who works have to be paid by ads.
Google please restore all how it was..
thanks
@ Lukazs it shouldn't, few months ago I had hotlink protection enabled for different reasons and it didn't affect the search results
ReplyDeleteLike new image search.
ReplyDeleteso typical, you people write your little post about how awesome google is, but there's no one to respond to comments because you are all bots apparently. Come on Hongyi Li say something you've got end-users and publishers commenting. Are you even allowed to respond??
ReplyDeleteThe best to sleal our visitors ! Hate google more and more...
ReplyDeleteGoogle, and anybody else, has no right to hotlink my images and embed them on their own commercial website. This is a huge slap in the face of content creators like me. I’m considering blocking the Google image search bot from my websites. I’m glad that only a small part of my visitors are referred to my comic websites from Google’s image search. But I feel for all photographers and artists who are hurt hard by this move which seems illegal to me.
ReplyDeleteYou might have to double-check with Google about this – but if your thumbnails are in one directory, and your highest-resolution images are in another, then use robots.txt to disallow Google down the high-rez directory. The only real problem then I see is that users won’t necessarily know that you have higher resolution versions available.
ReplyDeleteIf you e-mail Google and ask for help, possibly suggesting some routes you might take and requesting feedback on which is the best, you might get some good results. Referrer requirements might help, too – I dunno.
If you accuse them of trying to put you out of business, you’re likely to get nowhere. If you involve them in your concerns, subtly playing up the “I’m just a poor idiot and I’m asking help from the Net Gods” approach to flatter them, you might be surprised at just helpful they can be!
Just want to say your article is striking. The clearness in your post is simply spectacular and i can take for granted you are an expert on this field.
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wrong. totally wrong.
ReplyDeletepure evil. simple as that. what you are doing is stealing content but not paying for it. do you pay fo anything? the whole exercise is about that so don't pretend that it is anything else. you knew damned well when you implemented it that webmasters' traffic would tumble while their bandwidth would go up for hosting "your content". it's disgraceful. it's like living in a studio flat on a country estate and you find your electric is being hotwired by the country squire. when you compain the squire replies: "don't worry, i'm google. i'm a nice person ... read my press release to see how good it is for you'. subsequently your electricity is cut off because you can't afford the bill, your shivering to death but google do it all with a smile on their face.
ReplyDeleteThanks Google for stealing content from all websites!
ReplyDeleteThe UX for sure is better, but remember that you are displaying a slideshow with nice photos coming from photographers, producers, owners, etc.
Why don't you start creating a "music search" with all songs from all over the world, for free, and without asking the majors?
I do not understand the mechanics of the thing, or the legal side, but as a simple end user, I must say I do not like this change.
ReplyDeleteI often - practically only - search for images with some informational context (often historical clothing, in my case). The previous system when it showed some textual context, too, and you could, basically, click right to the site, was much more useful for that type of search: I could see quickly, without opening a new window/new panel (sorry, not sure what these things are called) whether the image was useful for me or not, and only go to the site/open a new window when it was - in effect, that was a much faster search than the one you're offering now.
As others mentioned, the new search works as an online gallery, perhaps, but it's not useful when you're searching for content/context. It only gives me a load of pictures without any way of distinguishing between them at first sight - not even a way of seeing if some of them come from the same site. I don't think that saves me much time in the long run.
My site traffic is down 50% since this update has been implemented. While Google says that it will improve CTR's I'm yet to see it.
ReplyDeleteWhile users might find this update better for their user experience, it's killing webmasters, how are we suppose to sell ads on our sites when you cut our traffic. There has to be a way webmasters can fight this pointless update.
I guess its just Google reminding people they can do whatever they like including stealing people's content.
Hey when will you improve image geo location for blogspot?
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I am missing the "All Sizes" and "Similar" links!!!
ReplyDeletegoogle it's killing wallpapers and photographer sites. a lots of webs are loosing traffic
ReplyDeletenext steps is a "free music search" killing musicians work?
thanks for great design for users. all my image and wallpaper sites are dead. One day hope yur site willbe dead like mine.
ReplyDeleteHope they will suffer like us soon. GOD will take care of you, google.
ReplyDeleteGeez Google what ever happend to dont be evil, shame on you.
ReplyDeleteThere you go, does it feel good to destroy the work of the copyright holder who work hard for these images. What ever happend to don't be evil, never again will I recommend google to anyone.
ReplyDeleteGoogle you are stealing bandwidth, some people do NOT have unlimited bandwidth on their hosting packages. Shame on you.
ReplyDeleteGoogle you do not have the right to display my full sized images any more than a sleazy scraper site does whether they are hot linked or uploaded to their servers it is a violation of the DMCA. Read your own pages about the DMCA. Google has become the world's largest scraper site with this change. Thumbnails for search engines are "fair use" displaying my full sized image is not. You are facilitating image theft and copyright infringement. Our images belong to us and are protected by copyright laws.
Google you will lose revenue because you are now by passing the sites that have Google ads.
What idiot thought this would be better for Google or the publisher's whose content you are stealing? They need to be fired.
I truly hope that this change will result in the world's largest class action lawsuit.
"I truly hope that this change will result in the world's largest class action lawsuit"
ReplyDeleteAs do I!!! You guys are certifiably nuts!
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For the content creators who worry about their bandwidth and content being yoinked by this change (and rightfully so), make use of the technologies available to you. A 'robots.txt' will allow you to disable access to your images when the google-image crawler comes along. Obviously, this would be a bit overkill, you still want the traffic from the search - so here's a solution. Split your images into two directories: the "high-res" content images you want people coming to your site for, and the "low-res" watermark heavy images and thumbnails you want to come up in a search. Then disallow the image crawler access to the high-res directory - example robots.txt content:
# Crwl3r, u can haz tumbnal, butts no tuchy hirezz!
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /images/hi-res/*
Crawlers are dumb, they can't tell the difference between your prized content quality images and just a big image you're happy to have free to the world unless you tell them.
Edit: This robots.txt example would obviously only handle the google image crawler and not any other image crawlers.
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Google kill wallpaper blog, my traffic decrease more 50%
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ReplyDeleteIt may be useful for a simple user who need images for some reason but it is a real robbery for image owners and creators who create images to monetize their websites. Google has just made it more convenient for one people to rob others. Too bad for Google and very disappointing for me.
ReplyDeleteThis is outrageous !! my traffic drops to 60% of my photography site, which is my main income !! i need to block google images from stealing my photos.
ReplyDeleteThis is shameful and not expected from google. My picture site (photos.addatoday.com) traffic is reduced by 70-80%. Where are my earning will come. Pathetic. Change immediately or have to block google.
ReplyDeleteGoogle this is unjust. almost every blogger has lost half of his traffic with new image search. stop injustice.
ReplyDeleteI read almost everywhere that huge quantity of Webmasters are losing much traffic and risk to fire workers and compromise the life of sites.
ReplyDeleteThis is a clear effect, it is unuseful to continue to argue.
I ask all if Google is realizing this.
If not what solution to propose?
Is possible a dialogue with Google?
Or Google is a sense only company?
I see nothing changes and I suspect with reasons that nothing will change soon.
What we can do to transmit Google a real huge problem Internet is risking, I talk about the quality of bloggers, cause nobody wants to work for granted.
The new interface practically invites everyone to not enter in the site, this is sure at 100%, cause most prefer to download the image directly from the link Google offers simply.
If Google intends to take all the income and work of all webmasters, I suppose Webmasters will stop to serve Google self.
I ask Google and you, is there someone we can talk? or we are simply talking with a Ghost?
why google wants to show full image which takes almost similar time to open images. Its not very attractive.
ReplyDeleteand where is similar image option.
Previous was much better and looked alive and this is awful and dead :-( like bing!
I lost my traffic and feel depressed!
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ReplyDeleteA clickable next button would be really nice. Using the keyboard is cool, but not having a button to click is kind of annoying.
ReplyDeleteThanks Google, for taking all the images from my site and displaying them on your own site so people don't have to visit my site any more.
ReplyDeleteHow long before you start displaying your own ads next my images?
After my initial disbelief and anger, I thought about it and now I'm still confident that, after all these protests, Google will find a solution to this matter that will please both users and webmasters (like me).
ReplyDeleteI can't believe they'll just ignore them.
They're also losing revenue from Adsense publishers' drop in traffic, so I think we should wait and see.
Lets face it.
ReplyDeleteGoogle won't respond or change it's mind.
Also no major image site said anything about it, so....
As long as Google makes it easy for people to steal my copyrighted images, I will be blocking Google from accessing my site. I have already blocked Bing. While I appreciate people being able to find my site through a search, this allows them to look and steal my images without ever coming to my site. I will be participating in any class action suit that arises.
ReplyDeleteI'm a humble blogger of social history with a fair number of specialist-interest images online. My record year-ending stats showed a 37% increase year on year. Suddenly since Jan 22 my daily views have plummeted by 55%. Alarmingly, it is referrers via web search who have been slashed by 62% in the past ten days.
ReplyDeleteIt really decrease traffic to the image blogs
ReplyDelete- http://www.mycafelove.com
Decrease significativly traffic my blogs since 9 of may 2012 since google was wild with images over scroll type pinterest in now google since 19 january in search web put all or the most keys show the scroll type pinterest in the user in the images dont click over this this was result more low trafic also googlr go more with hotlink images
ReplyDeleteit decrease my traffic, thank you!!
ReplyDeleteanyone know how to prevent google hotlinking without an .htaccess file?
ReplyDeletei doubt google will change it because they can get away with it. if you look at images.google.de in germany you will see how a search engine should be. it actually sends people to the website!!!!!!! truly remarkable. obviously in germany google can't get away with this type of hotlinking or they would have done it. elsewhere they can get away with it and that's there raison d'etre.
ReplyDeleteGOOGLE STOLEN MY IMAGE.BRING BACK MY IMAGE OR STOP YOUR BOT INDEX MY BLOG IMAGE
ReplyDeleteGood of google to give the customers - both users and publishers - what they want. It can only improve from here.
ReplyDeleteShame really, just google the company thinks
ReplyDeleteTraffic for many webmasters is down including me. The direct image link is just plain rude. You have stolen our images and traffic. Many webmasters are now blocking Googles Image Bot. Google, please fix this, it was not a good idea.
ReplyDeleteThe only acceptable solution for me to this problem of Google stealing my image views before I block Google Image Bot and enable Hotlink Protection is for Google to put Adsense ads on the pages and enable revenue sharing, period.
ReplyDeleteOK, I have a temporary fix. I have enabled hotlink protection. Google are now showing some very lower quality cached versions of my large images, file sizes of around 15kb, haha! And the link to my image directly is dead! Haha! So I hope that gives your users a better experience Google, nice one.
ReplyDeleteTHE OLD VERSION!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.google.com/search?q=go&hl=en&tbo=d&site=imghp&tbm=isch&sout=1&biw=1279&bih=681
I correct myself, they are not bad copies of my large photos, they are blown up versions of Googles cached thumbs and they look pretty bad, makes you want to click through to my sight to see the good version! That's fantastic!
ReplyDeleteThis is disgusting. We host over 20,000 artist portfolios and our stats are showing that Image referral traffic is down 90% yet we have to pay the same bandwidth cost because you're hotlinking our artists' images.
ReplyDeleteEven worse, the authorship of our artists' images are compromised because viewing the images out of context like this will lead to plagiarism and art theft on a much wider scale.
Well, I might as well say goodbye to my DeviantArt account. ; u; No one's going to go there anyway.
ReplyDeleteHere is a news post about how awful and anti-artist this new policy is.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theotaku.com/news/view/1945/the_world%27s_biggest_art_thief%3A_google/
Problems:
* Creates a breeding ground for plagiarism
* Hotlinking drives artist bandwidth bills up
* Artists see nominal referral traffic
You have just killed lots of webmasters. Traffics are gone. Congrats google !
ReplyDeletehttp://www.seroundtable.com/google-images-protest-16283.html
the silence from google is deafening. too arrogant to even comment on the copyright issue alone let alone anything else.
ReplyDeletethe news article that adam posted: http://www.theotaku.com/news/view/1945/the_world%27s_biggest_art_thief%3A_google/ is brilliant. concise & to the point. it does make the great train robbery look like loose change.
i would advise anyone to forget about contact ing google and copy the above link with a brief explanation to your local national newsdesks. papers, news channels etc. the more people do it the more it will get noticed.
cos google sure ain't listening.
I don't like this new system, it's not fair that you don't take the person to the original where the picture is from. What about the artists?!
ReplyDeleteThis is not fair for artists, when you click on a thumbnail it should always direct to the original page and of course have the option of viewing full size but that's it!!! Fix this now.
ReplyDeleteSorry for my english. I´m travel blogger and I post more than 5000 pictures about hundred destinations and my blog down 50 % of traffic because the people search images and no see any more my blog back in the image with some information that send traffic to my blog. Is better way to search but not for photos owner. More better if only exist the botton VISIT ORIGINAL PAGE and not "see orignal image" becuase the visitor NOT VISIT THE WEB of the picture owner. I don´t like because is my job, my businnes and my efforts for continue with my blogg. The picture have owners and Google take all traffic with our job. Please REMOVE the bottos SEE ORIGINAL IMAGE and only SHOW "ORIGINAL SITE" similar link on the picture. Regards and think in the editors the next time
ReplyDeleteI have been a blogger for 2years and more. I hope that the new changes will be more good than before.My site is One touch. My suggestion is to improve the upload speed of pics in blogger..
ReplyDeleteI really need to block Google Image referrals.
ReplyDeleteGoogle, please provide instructions on a reliable method to accomplish this.
Read this: http://www.theotaku.com/news/view/1945/google%3A_the_world%27s_biggest_art_thief/
ReplyDeleteIn short, this new system promotes art theft and takes up sites' bandwidth. As an artist, I will not stand for this! Google, come up with a better system, PLEASE!
That's all convenient but what about the people who actually post those things?
ReplyDeleteIf I am a photographer and post your images and they show up on google, no one would bother checking your site cause they can just see from the thumbnail. When I used to get 1000 views a day, now probably I would only get less than 100 ):
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ReplyDeleteWhoever approved this recent update should be fired. Why can't the images no longer open in a new window? I miss them enlarging before I have to actually click on them. Why the extra step in the process of actually seeing the image if I want to click on it? Bad Bad Bad.
ReplyDeleteI agree with a lot of the artists who are worried about people not going straight to their sites/pages to view the original image. If people aren't going to pay attention to who actually created the pictures, this can be a problem when a lack of credit is given to the image's owner. This can lead to a greater number of art theft, which is already a very bad problem.
ReplyDeleteSure, you give the option to visit the original page, but to people don't care and are willing to steal images, what makes you think they're going to click that button?
I think while the update is okay, it could be better if it offered better protection to artists who are already worried about art theft.
Google, this is extremely unfair it definitely goes beyond 'fair use'.
ReplyDelete"Creating global ignorance"
ReplyDeleteGoogle I think you've been an amazing innovator, but this one is very insensitive to the livelihood of photographers and other designers. I'd like to see a very big copyright warning posted. Very very big please. Most people think "off the internet" = free and sadly, you are mostly to blame for that ignorance.
I have an idea, I will start redirect all hotlinked traffic to some porn photos. People will be ecstatic, especially children.
ReplyDeleteAre you serious? All this does is make it even easier to steal content from photographers. Pretty rotten Google!
ReplyDeleteAn even faster way to divorce the image from its rightful copywrite holder. Google treats images like word instead of copyrighted artwork.
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ReplyDeletethis feature is a disaster,
ReplyDeletepeople get the encouragement to just download the image (it may be a stock photo or protected content) and not even see the site, it just increases infringement chances, how can google be so thoughtless, adding fine print does not help, you have no right to RIP off images from other sites, no right to screen off original content provider, you are just hopping on and pull images without literal any credit to the original page, shame!
I am a stock photographer and I sell images online. I don't like what Google is doing. Google makes it possible for people to find the hires image for people to use without paying for it. Google is helping violating copyright. Stock photographers make less money because of Google giving our images away for free. I don't like it at all. Google is destroying the stock photography business.
ReplyDeleteGreedy, shameless creatures! You are stealing my content and bandwidth! Damn you Google!
ReplyDeleteReally hoping for an answer and solution soon from Google. My site is taking a big hit from this. 40% of my web traffic used to come from images. Now my image searches have almost halted to a measly 5%. C'mon Google, get off your butt and make a decision.
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to congratulate Google on the new Image Search format. Outstanding improvement, and clever too! Thanks, Cary
ReplyDeleteBetter be wary of copyright infringement. This change is not a good thing. There is no link to the original website where the copyright owner could possibly be reached. Images found on Google are not always free.
ReplyDeleteCorrection to my comment above: There is, in fact, a link to the original website. Many of these images are owned by stock photographers whose livelihood comes from their sales.
ReplyDeleteMany of these are copyrighted images. People could be sued for downloading and using these images without copyright owners permission.
ReplyDeleteI love how your new image search looks, but you're not respecting the sources of copyrighted content - images and the pages that host them - in effectively encouraging users to bypass the web site and ignore the copyright. Stay with Google and download what you need - but what about the owners of that content?
ReplyDeleteIf you don't consider the rights of the copyright holders, in time there won't be content for you to index and provide search results to - photographers and web site developers need to be compensated for their work, not just have it hijacked by a spiffy new search tool
I personally think...they need to really think about this decision. I know I will not be a happy camper if my photographs were being illegally downloaded.
ReplyDeleteThe search is great, but as a content owner, i object to you allowing multiple redistributions of my high resolution images. This is known as copyright infringement and you are stealing my source of income away from me and other image providers who make their living at this.
ReplyDeleteGarbage slow tedious search now.
ReplyDeleteGoogle failed.
Greedy, shameless, never again will I support Google, you are destroying the lives of photographers/illustrators with this.
ReplyDeleteSHAME ON YOU.
Shame on you Google for stealing the work of artists and by not respecting copyright!
ReplyDeleteI hate the new google image search. I never leave "feedback" on changes based on interfece, ever, but I despise this one so much! It's confusing and never works for me. When I click on an image, the drop down doesn't open, I CAN'T ACTUALLY VIEW AN IMAGE ANYMORE ITS SO ANNOYING!!! I just want to click on an image and have it bring me to the image, then give me the option to click off into the website, what was so wrong with that!!!!!??? Can I at least have a way to use that interface again!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou're going to put every photographer who posts and licenses their images via their own website and/or stock agencies out of business. Sharing my full-sized images with others and allowing them to bypass my site or the site of my agency where these images can be licensed and go directly to the original source images violates my copyright and encourages stealing.
ReplyDeleteAll someone has to do is right click to download my image - something that is disabled on my site. And where's the metadata you claim to be displaying? You're displaying my images at 900 pixels, a license which costs anywhere from $50 to several hundred dollars for one-time use of the image.
You are supposed to be a search engine not a content provider - and you do not have the right to share my actual content so that your visitors may bypass my site.
Since you are the world's largest search engine, those of us who make all of part of our living via the internet must rely on google so those searching for what we offer can find our sites. If I disable your bot I'm sunk. but if people get my images from you rather than via my site or one of my agents, I'm sunk too. Displaying a thumbnail is permissible, displaying a 900 pixel image which you have not licensed is not. If someone wants to see a full-sized image of my work, they should be viewing it on my site, not on google.
All of my images have my copyright information embedded in the metadata. Yet the information provided by google states that the photo may be copyrighted - so much for giving webmasters the metadata they need to source images.
I'm beyond disappointed.
Someone has already started a petition on Change.org today. Please sign it and support the campaign.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/google-stop-hotlinking-copyrighted-images-of-web-publishers
I suggest everyone visit the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.iprcenter.gov/referral , which is the US Government's clearinghouse for IP violations to report Google for their violations of copyright law: "Copyright law also grants the creator exclusive rights to reproduce, distribute, display, perform, rent, record, translate, or adapt the work."
In this case, Google is no longer acting as a search engine with thumbnails, as was defended here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10,_Inc._v._Google_Inc.
In fact, they are in violation of their own recognition of copyright:
http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=172486
"Copyright infringement occurs when a copyrighted work is reproduced, distributed, performed, publicly displayed, or made into a derivative work without the permission of the copyright owner."
Google, please remove and revisit this functionality and produce a result that is more content creator friendly, instead of "I'm looking to steal free stuff" friendly.
I'm not sure how the CTR tests have been performed - my experience shows that it has decrease instead of increasing.
ReplyDeleteThank you Google. You guys are criminal masterminds. I love stealing. And with you by my side I can now steal images so much easier. Photographers shouldn't be able to make a living creating images. That's stupid. They should get jobs handing out towels in fancy hotel bathrooms. There should be no such thing as art unless everyone can steal it. You're going to make that happen. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteSo Google is stealing traffic / money of other websides and doesn't respect copyright that belongs to the artists. On a sitenote the whole imageviewer is "borrowed" of Apples Itunes store interface ... You really think to get away with this?
ReplyDeleteThings are going fast forward, but search is one thing, make things easier for tampering and piracy is another. There will be a point of "no return", with no new content available, because creators have to get something out of their work - isn't it?
ReplyDeleteGreat news for those who nick images and very bad news for us photographers who are attempting to make a living. How about THIS IMAGE IS SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT AND YOU MUST CONTACT LEGITIMATE SOURCE OF IMAGE not This image may be subject to copyright. It might actually tell folk that images are NOT free.
ReplyDeleteGoogle, you are stealing bandwidth, you are stealing traffic, you are stealing copyright, and you are stealing revenues. Google you are asking the world to sue you!
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