Now when you search on Bing Image Search and click on an image, you will get a beautiful large display of the image and even be able to click to make it full screen. Here is a screen shot:

Bing announced this yesterday saying this makes for a better user experience. It gives you a full size image, faster loading time, easier navigation from one image to the next, and shows you size previews on the screen.

Now although it might make for a better searcher experience, webmasters are not happy.

They feel like Bing is taking their images, using their bandwidth and they are not even getting a pageview from it. A user can just look at the full image on Bing and the site itself gets no pageview from it.

A big time image search expert at WebmasterWorld calls for webmasters to block Bing from crawling and indexing their images. He explained why:

This is not the first time Bing upset image owners, they did so in April 2011.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.