[Waterluvian]

I find image search to be almost entirely useless but the normal search is generally sufficient. The last time I used DDG the geographic results were frustratingly inconsistent. I’d get restaurants in different countries and whatnot.

[teekert]

Actually when you are searching for something to print (like coloring pages) DDG is much more useful as you can actually open the image as an image. Google seems to have stopped doing that.

[Waterluvian]

I’m not a big fan of leeching people’s content like that. Though it’s very convenient for the consumer.

[teekert]

I agree, and probably I may buy more coloring books if it weren’t for ddg. Although we have many and still my daughter wants a specific one with a unicorn and a princess and spends a lot of time picking one. The alternative to this is “take on from you coloring books you already have.” So I guess nobody is really losing anything in this case, except me, I pay for the toner in the printer as well as for the coloring books ;)

[Waterluvian]

I do the exact same with my kids. I’m not “innocent” of my own perspective either. :)

[peakaboo]

> I’m not a big fan of leeching people’s content like that. Though it’s very convenient for the consumer.

Except the internet was built to let us leech content from eachother.

If there would have been a capitalistic mindset behind it, I guess they would have started with taking your credit card number back in 1960.

[Waterluvian]

Whatever you think the Internet was built for doesn’t matter. Copyright exists and some people want to retain their rights to share an image without people just wholesale scraping it without even visiting the website.

This antisocial behaviour of walking in and taking whatever isn’t bolted down leads to an unfortunate arms race of watermarks, other technologies, and crappy laws that attempt to stop consumers from disrespecting the rights of producers.

Whether intended or not, Google at least makes you visit the website before taking the images. (Which is contrary to all the times google does this for its own benefit.)

The number of people who produce desirable content are drastically outnumbered by the number of consumers, so I’m very guarded about any rhetoric that fixates on consumer rights at the cost of producer rights. Naturally they don’t get an equal voice.