DooKey
[H]F Junkie
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Google has entered an agreement with Getty Images that calls for them to remove the view image button from all of Google's photo search pages. In turn Getty is dropping all complaints against Google for anticompetitive behavior. Google image searches just won't be the same anymore and you'll have to go through more steps to save a photo from this point forward. Thanks modi123.
The photo biz complained that photographs shown in the advertising goliath's search results were unfairly offered in full high-res formats, as opposed to small thumbnails, and that the snaps could be easily saved via the "View image" button and ripped off without any attribution or royalty payments. This in turn slashed traffic to Getty's websites and subsequent sales, it was claimed.
The photo biz complained that photographs shown in the advertising goliath's search results were unfairly offered in full high-res formats, as opposed to small thumbnails, and that the snaps could be easily saved via the "View image" button and ripped off without any attribution or royalty payments. This in turn slashed traffic to Getty's websites and subsequent sales, it was claimed.