After years of protests by photographers and websites, Google has implemented a substantial change to the functioning of the search for images on its search engine.

As you can also verify, from a few days on Google Images disappeared the button that allows you to view and save a shot locally without going through the portal that published it.

The move is part of the agreements signed last week with Getty Images, two years after the complaint filed with the European Union.

In the intentions of Mountain View, the additional step imposed to reach the images serves to discourage the download, or at least to guarantee through the Visit button a click, with attached gain in terms of advertising revenue, to the publisher who put them in circulation.

“Having a single key that provides people with useful information about an image is good for users, web publishers and copyright holders,” notes the company on the sidelines of a series of tweets.

The Search by Images button has been removed in the same way, but Google claims that most of their users search for clicks through the regular search engine.

The thing should not weigh too much on those who already complain about the excessive slowness of the process.

Today we’re launching some changes on Google This will include removing the View Image button. They’re on. The Visit button remains, so users can see. pic.twitter.com/n76KUj4ioD†“Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) February 15th 2018

Source: The Verge