gbk666 - 1:54 pm on Jan 29, 2013 (gmt 0)

The best were the reactions by the average joe's when i brought up the topic to a big community of well..normal people who have nothing to do with webmasters

Lemme show you some of the best comments:

"Earn your pageviews, you lazy bum."

"Ahem. “The domain name is now clickable, and we also added a new button to visit the page the image is hosted on. This means that there are now four clickable targets to the source page instead of just two.

The results will also show more information about the image including the size, domain name and the webpage the image has come from. In early tests, Google apparently reported an increase in click-through after making this extra information more prominent."

I don't think you did your research. I think you saw something and flipped out."

"Oh no, your crap isn't as popular as you thought it was? People don't CARE about visiting your page? People don't WANT to see this stuff?

People don't WANT to look at the webpage that some image is hosted on?

Oh, that's so horrible.

(This is me STILL NOT CARING)

If they WANT TO THEY WILL. Maybe you should give them a reason to check your page out instead of whining that you aren't getting fake pageviews from people who just wanted to look at your picture."

"Google owes you nothing. If anything, I would bet a lot of your visitors didn't really look around on your site much but were just looking at the images. More than likely, Google is trying to beef up browsing security by having websites not load (therefore, only the image can load and not something malicious.)"

"You know they give you like 4 ways to see the webpage that image comes from, too, instead of just one.

Perhaps you should read some actual press releases instead of jumping on the 'gzomg' bandwagon.

Five seconds of research tells you how the search actually works."


"They don't owe you anything. You don't pay them for those visitors. And, quite frankly, as a person who uses google image search, I don't particularly want to visit every damn website for an image I click on because I don't know what's on it.. So, in the real world this hot linking is more user friendly. Go google!"

"So effectively you were relying on google images as free advertising? No such thing as a free lunch, boy!"

"Google owes no responsibility to you. If it wasn't for google, we wouldn't have the internet as we know it."

Motivating, eh?