DuckDuckGo still has this feature in their Images search, using the "View File" button.
It also doesn't wrap the URL of search results in a Google redirect URL, so you can Right Click > Copy to get the actual URL of the webpage or image.
It also doesn't wrap the URL of search results in a Google redirect URL, so you can Right Click > Copy to get the actual URL of the webpage or image.
But most times I want information tailored specific to my issues so google is better for me 90% of the time.
It's generating its own fake news at this point.
Oh and I forgot the medieval Chanson which is ever earlier.
DDG is starting to feel a bit like AltaVista in that regard.
Most of their links come from their own webcrawler, Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex.
Honestly, this is why I love the Internet. Because while a company gets more and more focused on profits and power the Internet will just come up with something better... until that thing becomes the thing it hates and the pattern repeats.
A perfect example of this is digg and reddit. Reddit has gone so far downhill the minute someone has a real replacement it's going the way of Slashdot.
Fuck Google, Fuck Facebook, Fuck Microsoft, Fuck oracle, Fuck reddit, and Fuck all the other services that pretend to be for the user while they abuse the user.
Join me on the foss-side, we have source code. (Ddg has a cli search client just fyi)
Edit: Well it seems this is from legal pressure from Getty. Unfortunately that reason isn't enough to stop me from switching.
If you do that you usually end up with a low-resolution image on a url of the form https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?...
You do have to wait for the image to have fully loaded, mind, but otherwise it's quite literally embedding the image anyway - right-click, View Image, and you've got it.
If you left click a result first to give it focus, and then right click->open in new tab you'll get the original, full size, image.
Guess what, I think yandex.com still has it too.