Google Are Really Taking The Mickey With Their Chrome Web Browser Now...
For anyone who doesn't think that monopolies are necessarily a bad thing. Think again.
Over a year ago, Google changed their image search so that images from your web site were displayed directly in front of the user, in a frame, with your web site 'faded' into the background, thus making it even more likely that someone will take your image directly from Google image search, without even viewing one page on your web site!
For sites that make money off advertising, this is obviously not a good thing.
One thing you can do it add a bit of javascript fame busting code to your site which breaks out of the frame, and at least allows visitors to see the page on your web site where the image is located :-
It doesn't break the back button, and from what I have seen so far, it doesn't seem to negatively affect Google image search rankings.
I usually use Firefox, but yesterday, when checking out some of my own images in Google image search using the Google Chrome web browser, I noticed that the frame busting script appeared to be broken. This prompted much head scratching, until I tried the same search on Firefox and Internet Explorer, and found that it was still working! Just NOT when using Google Chrome!
Moral of the story - if you are using Google Chrome, Google can change the behaviour of the browser to suit themselves, and there is nothing you can do about it! So, everyone, please start using Firefox again. If you don't then on your own heads be it...
If you are not afraid yet, look at the following browser market share stats:-
(Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers).
And - this one is a wee bit out of date. The last one I saw actually had Chrome overtaking Firefox (I'd post the link if I could find it!)...
Update - March 2012 - Somewhat mysteriously, Chrome has started obeying the frame buster script again on my PC.
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Over a year ago, Google changed their image search so that images from your web site were displayed directly in front of the user, in a frame, with your web site 'faded' into the background, thus making it even more likely that someone will take your image directly from Google image search, without even viewing one page on your web site!
For sites that make money off advertising, this is obviously not a good thing.
One thing you can do it add a bit of javascript fame busting code to your site which breaks out of the frame, and at least allows visitors to see the page on your web site where the image is located :-
<script type="text/javascript"> if(top != self) top.location.replace(location); </script>
It doesn't break the back button, and from what I have seen so far, it doesn't seem to negatively affect Google image search rankings.
I usually use Firefox, but yesterday, when checking out some of my own images in Google image search using the Google Chrome web browser, I noticed that the frame busting script appeared to be broken. This prompted much head scratching, until I tried the same search on Firefox and Internet Explorer, and found that it was still working! Just NOT when using Google Chrome!
Moral of the story - if you are using Google Chrome, Google can change the behaviour of the browser to suit themselves, and there is nothing you can do about it! So, everyone, please start using Firefox again. If you don't then on your own heads be it...
If you are not afraid yet, look at the following browser market share stats:-
(Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers).
And - this one is a wee bit out of date. The last one I saw actually had Chrome overtaking Firefox (I'd post the link if I could find it!)...
Update - March 2012 - Somewhat mysteriously, Chrome has started obeying the frame buster script again on my PC.
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