{"id":248969,"date":"2018-02-16T09:51:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T07:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=248969"},"modified":"2018-02-16T09:51:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T07:51:27","slug":"google-removes-view-image-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/248969-google-removes-view-image-button.html","title":{"rendered":"Google removes View Image button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is making changes to its Google Images search, which it said is aimed at connecting users and useful websites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will include removing the View Image button. The Visit button remains, so users can see images in the context of the web pages they&#8217;re on,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p>The View Image button allowed Google users to view a full image without visiting the website where the image was hosted.<\/p>\n<p>The Search by Image button is also being removed, but reverse image search still works.<\/p>\n<p>Google confirmed the changes partly came about due to its settlement with Getty Images this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are designed to strike a balance between serving user needs and publisher concerns, both stakeholders we value,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Image-Search.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-248971\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Image-Search.jpg\" alt=\"Image-Search\" width=\"640\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Image-Search.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Image-Search-505x400.jpg 505w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Image-Search-543x430.jpg 543w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Image-Search2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-248977\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Image-Search2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Image-Search2.jpg 835w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Image-Search2-470x400.jpg 470w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Image-Search2-768x653.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Image-Search2-506x430.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/248779-google-hikes-price-and-adds-sports-to-youtube-tv.html\">Google hikes price and adds sports to YouTube TV<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google now sends people to the website where the image is hosted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":221903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[13209,36572],"class_list":["post-248969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-google-search","tag-image-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249029,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248969\/revisions\/249029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}