The biggest issue, from Getty’s perspective, is that users have no reason to visit their site if they can see the same image in Google’s search engine.
Google gave Getty the options of either accepting Google’s presentation of the images in its search engine, or opting out. Getty found these options to be unacceptable.
This basically translates to Getty Images saying "we want to continue to have the benefit of Google users seeing our content, but we want it to be entirely on our terms". I think Google should just make all of Getty's images say "image unavailable" or completely filter them out. The stock image industry is a huge racket with their overpriced cheesy pictures anyway. I'd be happy to see less of them in my image searches and in articles.
[–] Morbo 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This basically translates to Getty Images saying "we want to continue to have the benefit of Google users seeing our content, but we want it to be entirely on our terms". I think Google should just make all of Getty's images say "image unavailable" or completely filter them out. The stock image industry is a huge racket with their overpriced cheesy pictures anyway. I'd be happy to see less of them in my image searches and in articles.