At present, the viewing results of Baidu image search have undergone major changes. In the past, in the results of Baidu image search, Baidu would display the source URL of the image in a very eye-catching position above, and then display the image below the source URL. In this way, regardless of clicking on the source URL or this image, netizens would be Guided to the source website, relying on this principle, many picture sites with surprisingly large daily IPs have been born. In particular, some people often go to the target website to take a look in order to browse more related pictures.
But now, Baidu’s image search results no longer allow images to jump directly to the source website. We can find that in the search results, when we click on the image thumbnail, the next image search result will be automatically displayed in the form of a list instead of jumping to the source website. In this way, netizens will no longer Go to the source website, so what if someone insists on looking at other related pictures of the changed picture? Baidu also gives a symbolic source URL in the search results, but it is placed in the bottom left corner It’s in the corner, and the font is very small, so most people can’t see it at all. You can imagine how many people will click on this source URL?
In fact, I rarely use Baidu's image search, and I don't know when this change occurred. However, although one of my websites is not a picture site, it still gets dozens of IPs from Baidu's image search every day. Mainly because of the keyword "Jenny Concert" (http://jswy.chuiyue.com/ys/13013/), but in the past few days I found that the traffic from Baidu pictures is very small and almost non-existent. After checking the results, I discovered this change in Baidu pictures. It can be predicted that the traffic of many photo sites will be greatly affected by this, because Baidu's changes will almost no longer direct traffic to the target website.
What is particularly worth noting is that this change in Baidu's image search results is exactly the adjustment Google made to its own image search results a few months ago. The current image search result display modes of the two are almost exactly the same! Back then, Google did this Although it caused a lot of controversy when the change was made, Google's traffic cannot be compared with Baidu after all, so everyone did not take it to heart. However, now Baidu, the leader of Chinese search, has also done this, which cannot but attract our attention. .
Now, the two major search engines that account for 90% of the domestic search market both capture images and display them on their own servers instead of directing traffic to the source website. This cannot help but cause people to worry about image copyright issues. However, This change has been running normally on Google for a long time without problems, which shows that these search engines have found a legal basis for covertly stealing image content.