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-view-image-button...
Hat tip to Quim Gil for sharing.
Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Chris Koerner ckoerner@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 :-)
Ha! I'm trying to remain neutral, so no guessing either way from me. However, if someone smarter than I has any statistics to share in the recent weeks, I would be very interested to see if there is any measurable impact.
Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 8:49 AM, Jaime Crespo jynusx@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Chris Koerner ckoerner@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 :-)
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