Posted on 09/12/2015 6:29:07 AM PDT by jsanders2001
Has anyone noticed how it has become more difficult to find images on the Internet lately. Used to you could search Google and a page could be found, you'd click on the image, then you'd be able to get the direct link to the graphic online. Well I'm finding this to be a lot more difficult lately and have noticed a few trends: (1) a lot more of the images are indicated to be "pay" images that you can't use without paying for them as in iStock or Shutterstock, (2) articles are being published as pdf or in similar fashion where you aren't able to copy the image, and (3) many photos you used to be able to access about certain public figures don't seem to be online anymore.
Now I don't know if this is because Google changed up the indexing method or entered in a profitable agreement with the *Stock image companies which are all owned by Getty Images who have become shakedown artists claiming they own every image on the Internet then demanding you pay them money (I keep hearing that many times they don't even have a legitimate claim to the images they say they do) or if some public figures who used the services of a company or the government to scrub the Internet for them.
...but I do keep wondering if this has anything to do with Obama's Net Neutrality at the same time.
You’re so right! I was just looking for something for presentation yesterday.
Gracias and Aloha.
I use Yahoo search on my phone browser (android phone browser...has limited search functions available in settings). I dumped Google as the search engine a long time ago mainly because their image search function was becoming a PITA. Can’t remember exactly, but the cut & pasting of image links was too complicated.
The Online Stock Photo Monopoly
http://www.blogopreneur.com/v1/2010/02/05/the-online-stock-photo-monopoly/
Virtually every image of automotive manuals have been removed due to lawsuits by the manufacturers. The manufacturers are attempting, using a recent software law, to make it illegal to work on your own car. It is a copyright violation.
You can still buy manuals, but the cost has gone through the roof. A 1992 Suburban manual ranged from 60-120. I was lucky to get one in reasonable shape for a mere $22. But expect the manuals for more recent models to be unavailable at all.
I do notice even for non-pay sites that Google is showing a low-res or a thumbnail image and requiring a click over to the full site for full-res....of course, when you do that the full site must load with all the attendant nonsense - frames, shadow boxes, etc., and of course ads.
There really is some hair-splitting going on in relation to individual users’ ability to locate data. People are convinced that anything and everything should be monetized.
YES!! And I will add to that recommendation:
The combination is dynamite for posting an image of anything on Free Repubic. Just use Snipping Tool to capture a .jpg and save it to your computer and then upload that .jpg to TinyPic.com. TinyPic will give you a link to the image that you can post.
Control+Print Screen
Control print paste crop save
Here it is corrected:
I know I can use a screenshot grabber but I’m talking about finding the image links online so I can post the oics here in the forum. To the best of my knowledge you can’t upload a pic for use in a forum post.
It is different but still easy. click on an image in google images and the dedicated popup comes up as usual. Then right click on the image and select “view image” and you get the full resulution (jpg in the one I tried). You can then save as normal.
It worked with the largest image selection.
their day is coming. They've pissed off way too many people with their Mafia shakedown scheme. Its gotten so bad you could take your own photo, post it on the Internet, then get a motification from Getty Images that you're using one of their images and need to remit $2,400 immedialtely or be taken to court for using "their" image. Yeah its getting that bad. The guys sending you the emails don't even use their real names. It's worse than a Nigerian 419 scam.
Right click...click properties...copy url...paste link...???
I used to be able to google search an image on my Android phone, and download the photo file from the preview then upload it to postimage.org and not worry about hotlinking burn.
Well they went and changed the google results and now they FORCE YOU to go to the source page... which is often just a nightmare of ads and un downloadable images. This change was a few months ago. It’s a real PITA.
Most images we seek are already on FR though... so search with the keyword freerepublic and it will show up in the archive.
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