DuckDuckGo has a far superior image search just for this reason. You can actually get a link to the image from the search results. As a bonus the link is often a DuckDuckGo proxy, so you don't even need to send someone to the source site - which is usually awful.
And when they get big enough, Getty will sue them as well, since this feature was removed as a settlement of a lawsuit.
Then someone else will come along and offer exactly the same functionality...
And the thumbnails are >100DPI, for modern screens.
that was part of a settlement from a Getty Images lawsuit
Aren't all the Getty images water marked though? WOuldn't this have driven traffic to them?
Why would it? Thumbnail watermarks are usually too small to see, and when you click to the image to go to Pinterest, all you'd see is the 'signup now' modal, with another group of thumbnails greyed out peeking around the edges.
As someone else noted Google has disabled this behavior.
Nope, not all the ones people paid to license for just their site.
A nice workaround is to right click the expanded image in the search results and click "view image" or "copy image location"
since others have the Chrome|ium extension linked already; a Firefox extension that re-adds that functionality: