Re:I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo
by Lammy on Monday December 02, 2019 @07:43PM
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Google Image Search has been intentionally crippled ever since the Getty vs Google lawsuit. GIS now seems to prefer showing me 'maxresdefault.jpg' YouTube thumbnails for at least 50% of results, presumably because the uploaders of those videos gave Google a license to use/distribute the work. Even for copyrighted works that still gives Google another party to blame.
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Could you go into more details? What exactly were the ramifications of the lawsuit?
My understanding of it as an outsider is that Getty Images filed a suit against Google seeking money for their images being displayed in GIS results. They later announced a settlement, and the 'View Image' button disappeared and the search result quality plummeted (my judgement) at exactly the same time. Here's some more reading:
https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/09/getty-images-and-google-d...
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after...