Matt Ashmore Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Is it my imagination or has Google image Search changed? Previously searching Google using an image (right-click menu option in chrome or upload an image here: https://images.google.com/) return a number of matching thumbnails that you could click on. Now I seem to get a load of textual links which don't really match my image. Do other people see this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 There's another thread on this, but yes, it does seem a bit different, certainly for images indexed recently. It's also returning results based on a text search as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 Thanks for the clarification... I missed the other thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarsierspectral Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 8 minutes ago, spacecadet said: There's another thread on this, but yes, it does seem a bit different, certainly for images indexed recently. It's also returning results based on a text search as well. Where is that other thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 7 minutes ago, tarsierspectral said: Where is that other thread? this refers to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarsierspectral Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 2 minutes ago, spacecadet said: this refers to it. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colblimp Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Just searched for one of my pics using Google search and the results mean the Google search is useless. Shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 13 minutes ago, Colblimp said: Just searched for one of my pics using Google search and the results mean the Google search is useless. Shame. Yes, that's about the size of it from my perspective too. And I guess the "reported images" threads will suffer as a consequence too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colblimp Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 17 minutes ago, Matt Ashmore said: Yes, that's about the size of it from my perspective too. And I guess the "reported images" threads will suffer as a consequence too. Exactly. Why 'fix' something which isn't broken? The mind boggles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 1 minute ago, Colblimp said: Exactly. Why 'fix' something which isn't broken? The mind boggles. It could be due to legislation in Google's case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 4 minutes ago, Matt Ashmore said: It could be due to legislation in Google's case. Tell us more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 17 minutes ago, spacecadet said: Tell us more. I'm just hypothesising... wasn't there a thread on this forum some time ago about Alamy/Getty (forget which) taking Google to Court because they find stock photos which people then steal (knowingly or otherwise)? This is the sort of thing which could make Google make changes. I believe it was this that I was thinking of: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/27/getty-images-files-antitrust-google Anyway.. my response was just a potential answer to Colblimp's rhetorical question! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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