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Google Images' new layout - how this impacts photographers and webmasters

posted on 4th of february, 2013

>Let me preface this blog post by saying that Google has been a very important Internet player, and that the Internet wouldn't be the same without their efforts and innovations. With that said, I would like to share information with you regarding a recently released update to Google’s image search functionality that is very troubling in that it materially changes the way Google image searchers respond to images that they locate.
Until a few days ago, a visitor to Google Images would see a thumbnail of the image in search results laid over the site where the original image was displayed. The website could be any site: an agency selling or displaying photographers' images, a personal website or a business that licensed images and paid a fee for them. The old Google search result presentation...

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Comments (57)

	Posted by Shopartgallerycom on May 14, 2013 Thank you for this interesting article, we all must do something and I'm sure that all together we'll be able to make some changes. I will go in Google Forum to write my opinion.
	Posted by Mroute on May 04, 2013 Google image view is like walking past a shop with products outside on the pavement and thinking or even expecting you can just take what you want without paying just because they are not inside the shop. This concept is preposterous and so obviously illegal. Youtube, under great pressure from rights holders no longer allows copywritten content to be seen unless authorised why should images be any different. The solution is simple Google image search overlays a Google watermark which encourages the user to find and locate the copy-written image legitimately and obtain a lawful licence to use that image. I hear your comments about adapting to change but that does not mean adapt to allow criminal activity to take place. The reality of this level of adaptation is there will be not incentive for people to create the high quality of images that are out there and then that will just lead to us all suffering.
	Posted by Complexdesignpl on April 29, 2013 @Alinakurbiel lol, Really? @Davemillman 4 clickable targets they say. :) But the image is visible in a big format, not a small one like before. So the viewer do not have to click any of this targets to view the image (or to save it). The only one impact for site owners is significant decrease of page views, because people are staying on a Google site.