​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

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deb tankersley

Program Manager, Engineering

Wikimedia Foundation

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Trey Jones <tjones@wikimedia.org> 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(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 <ckoerner@wikimedia.org> 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-view-image-button-from-search-results

Hat tip to Quim Gil for sharing.

Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation

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