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  • Google removed the "View Paradigm" push from Image Search recently, every bit function of a licensing agreement with Getty Images.
  • The "View Image" button fabricated it like shooting fish in a barrel for Google searchers to download images, though it was criticized equally enabling theft of copyrighted piece of work.

Google recently removed the "View Image" push button from Google Epitome Search, following a licensing understanding with Getty Images. Getty, owner of popular stock photo service iStock, filed an antitrust complaint confronting Google in 2016 in the European Marriage claiming that the image search function harms the company, as the power to download loftier resolution images without paying "promoted piracy."

A tertiary-party Chrome extension called "View Image" available freely brings the view image push button dorsum to Google Image Search. The functionality is basically the aforementioned–it displays the source image of the selected search effect–though the extension is programmed to open the prototype in a new tab, rather than in the same tab the search results are in. The extension works on Windows, Linux, OS 10, and Chrome Bone devices. Additionally, this Firefox extension performs the aforementioned job.

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To add the View Epitome extension, visit its folio in the Chrome Web Store, click Add to Chrome, and then click Add extension in the following pop-up window. The View Image button should and so show up in following Google Image searches.

Without the push, information technology is all the same possible to find the full-size image, with additional steps. The image preview provided by Google is direct from the originating site–not a re-hosted or compressed image–so it would generally be possible to download the full size image. Clicking through to "Visit," as is ostensibly intended subsequently Google removed the view image button does not always lead to the desired image, equally Google's cache can exist out of date, or user-hostile scripts such equally disabling right-click have been added to the page.

As a result of the understanding with Getty, images endemic by that company volition once again appear in Google Image Search results. Google will license content from Getty every bit function of the deal, but neither party has disclosed terms of the "multi-year global licensing partnership."

In a statement to the BBC, a representative from Getty stated: "Nosotros are pleased to announce that subsequently working cooperatively with Google over the past months, our concerns are beingness recognised and we have withdrawn our complaint."

In a tweet, Google's "search liaison" Danny Sullivan stated that the changes "are designed to strike a residuum betwixt serving user needs and publisher concerns, both stakeholders we value," adding "Ultimately, Google Images is a way for people to detect information in cases where browsing images is a ameliorate experience than text. Having a single push that takes people to actionable information nigh the image is expert for users, web publishers and copyright holders." Every bit part of the understanding, copyright information about images is more prominently displayed than was the case previously.

Rival search engines Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo go along to have "View Image" buttons in their image search functions, without the demand to apply browser extensions.