On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Chris Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
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.
Are you guessing positive because people will have to access the actual
pages and will be more aware of licensing and context, or negative because
it could reduce the visibility/reusage? Or not guessing at all :-)