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by titusjohnson 1567 days ago
Mostly true, image search results are shown to the user using a base64 encoded thumbnail representation of the source. Focused view results in a request made to the source image inline with Google's site. They definitely store & process copies. Color search, subject search, none of that is possible without storage of some kind. Freshness searches require polling resources with modest frequency, too.