You’re so right! I was just looking for something for presentation yesterday.
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.
Control+Print Screen
Control print paste crop save
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.
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.
I’ve noticed it, and I have no doubt it is because for-profit companies pay google to increase the priority of their images.
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.
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)
For later.....
Put it into MS Paint (paste).
Trim out what you don't want.
Save it and put it on Photobucket.
i have noted that derog images of liberals and “immigrants” still exists but are much harder to come by. sometimes you have to really try 4-5 times to search the “right” way