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.
Looks like no one is really answering your question!
Which may go unanswered anyway. Who knows why things seem to change or disappear?
I’ve noticed it, and I have no doubt it is because for-profit companies pay google to increase the priority of their images.
See my post 17. The only difference I am seeing is that before today you could click on the image and when the dedicated image popup came up you could click on the image again and the actual JPG link to the image would come up.
It still does that with an added two steps: When the dedicated image popup comes up, RIGHT CLICK on the image and, from the list, select “view image”.
It gets you to the exact same place a left click used to get you.
You’d have to upload the screen shot to somewhere else on the internet. I have my own website account and use file transfer protocol. There are sites like Photobucket.com where you can upload a photo and then display it using the image source address. It was free. Not sure anymore.
I’ve been using the internet since the old days of camelion on a mainfraime. I’ve seen lots of functionality come and a little go, but most of the time, what “went” was replaced by something better.
The only real complaint I have is that there is so much scripting and ads that muck up my speed and usage (I’m on limited usage via a myfi cellphone hotspot ‘cause I’m in the sticks) that I had to get adblocker and noscript to get my old speed experience back.
Windows?
Right click, “Inspect Element”.
There are lots of browser plug ins that let you see the source code and the associated link to an image.
> Looks like no one is really answering your question!
Which may go unanswered anyway. Who knows why things seem to change or disappear?
Yeah I’ve known how use CTRL C and CTRL V since the ‘90’s. A few have provided some work arounds. I’ll checkout TinyPC.com. I think Google must have entered into an agreement with Getty Images which will be significantly more profitable. Time to change search engines.
As much as I love taking pictures, I have pretty much quit posting them anymore.
The most I have done is send stuff to scoopshot.com a few times. Made 25 bucks from one submission.
This article might help:
http://www.sitepoint.com/7-best-search-engines-free-images/
Videos on YouTube are suddenly alot more scarce, too.
(in my experience)
This is nothing new.
I watched in mounting horror as google systematically and deliberately removed over half a million search results for image searches of "obama birth certificate" in mid-July of 2008.
The remaining results were pictures of flowers, birthday cakes, party scenes and pretty much anything but his alleged bona fides
Yeah they (Getty) makes qll the money and barely pays the original authors for their work if at all. What a scam.
I never did or got much in photo stock. Video did better.
I am glad that I took one useful course in high school which was the 3 year auto mechanics program.
For later.....
How would being sued fly if the accused had the original with the pertinent EXIF data on a burned disc?
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