There is another change too - it now says 'Images may be subject to copyright' under each image. Fun times...
Personally, I agree with Trey — not getting to get to the actual image for a better resolution is frustrating. Cheers, Deb -- deb tankersley Program Manager, Engineering Wikimedia Foundation On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Trey Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd recently noticed this change. It does make it harder for people to > steal images, as the Verge article put right in the headline. Given that > there are so few websites that encourage the use of pictures—Commons, > Pixabay, etc.—on net it's probably a good thing. Even on Commons people > should check out the licensing info and make sure a picture has the license > they need/expect. So many people assume everything on the internet is public > domain <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/public_domain>(1) just because it > is in the public domain(3). > > On the other hand, some sites are so bad about making it hard to find > images on a page—huge Pinterest collections are like that—that "view image" > was the only practical way to see a higher resolution version of an image. > > Still, I think having to go to Commons and see the context of the image is > good for helping people understand copyright and to learn about more > permissive licenses. > > Trey Jones > Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform > Wikimedia Foundation > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:58 AM, Chris Koerner <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Preemptive apology for the cross-post >> >> I haven't seen this noted anywhere in our community and thought it was >> worthy of discussion. >> >> Google has removed an easily accessible button that would take you >> directly to the image file in search results. I wonder what impact >> this may have, if any, on the discovery and use of images hosted on >> Wikimedia projects (most notably Commons) that appear in these Google >> search results. >> >> https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/964226180776845312 >> >> See also: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017864/google-removes-v >> iew-image-button-from-search-results >> >> Hat tip to Quim Gil for sharing. >> >> Yours, >> Chris Koerner >> Community Liaison >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discovery mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery > >
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