Comments on: Google image search gets usage rights filtering

Google's updated its image search to let users filter by images they can reuse and repurpose, which may keep the search giant from getting into hot water with content creators.

[catbutt5]

I find it amusing Google adds a search filter based upon license yet doesn't make any mention of how they are determining the licensing info for each image.
Is it a meta tag in the HTML? Is it embedded into the image itself? Is it a file with the same name as the image but with meta at the end? How do I say "This image is copyrighted but you can still look at it"?
Why does Google consider info like this non-essential? Try Googling for the answer, there isn't one. Fantastic.

[monkeyfun14]

The Open Company trying to protect their methods.

[a_flores]

So many times I do not find what I want in Google images. I expect Google to do more, especially the ability to read the TAG of the picture. Seems that Google engine just reads the file name which unfortunately in Photobucket, Flickr, Webshots, file names are combination of numbers and letters, not a real name of the picture. Since I never be satisfied with Google search results, mostly, whenever I want to search for pictures, I directly go to Flickr, photobucket, webshots, etc.

[miwi98]

I can not believe that I am saying this, a Yahoo users since the beginning, but Google did a great thing for folks who get images off the web..like me. I have used Flickr and others but what I like about Yahoo Image it includes images from those sites. I am going to try this out and see what it is all about. It is a great idea!