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Google Drops Report Offensive Images From New Image Search

A week or so ago, Google launched the Google Image Search redesign. With that, they left out an important feature, the ability to report offensive images.

Yesterday, I spotted a thread at Google Web Search Help with someone who complained that a SafeSearch didn’t filter out an image. I was about to tell the guy to use the “report offensive image” feature but then I looked for the feature and it was gone.

What I see now:

Report Images on New Google Images

What I saw in the old design:

Report Images on Google

As pointed out in the thread, the feature rarely worked anyway and the better way to remove offensive images was to use the web page removal tool linked to from the SafeSearch page. But that to me is more confusing than the old way.

Will Google bring it back?

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

Google sent me a response, which seems to imply that they forgot and will add something in the near future:

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