Make Google Images Great Again
Extension Delisted
This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-15.
Extension Actions
Brings the [View Image] and [Search by Image] buttons back to Google Images search results.
After you install this extension, you should see the [View Image] and [Search by Image] buttons in the expanded preview of Google Image search results.
Why doesn't Google Image search have these very useful buttons any more? Because Getty Images was worried that those buttons made it too easy to commit copyright infringement, and Google desperately wanted to be able to continue to include Getty Images in its image search results.
If you notice anything weird or it doesn't work, send an email to [email protected] and we'll figure it out.
Note that Google's HTML and javascript on its image search results pages is pretty funky, so this extension definitely has to resort to some methods that are not as robust as I'd like. Take a look at the code and if you have any suggestions on how to be less reliant on their div class names and DOM hierarchy, let me know.
Fork or contribute (pull requests welcome): https://gitlab.com/donnieclapp-OS/make-google-images-great-again
Thanks, and feel free to buy me a beer - paypal.me/donnieclapp
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Release Notes
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0.2.0 - 2018-02-21
* Completely rewritten to be more modular, less embarrassing
* Now should work on all international Google domains
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0.1.2 - 2018-02-19
* Create actual DOM nodes instead of using the "element.innerHTML=" hack
* Only delay button creation if it's the first click since page load
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0.1.1 - 2018-02-18
Switch icons to PNG for Chrome compatibility
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0.1. - 2018-02-16
Initial alpha
Latest reviews
- Andrew Rich
- Looks like you have to manually add https://*.google.com/* to the extension's allow-list, then it starts working. Thanks!
- Dominik Adrian Grzywak
- doesn't work anymore
- Sod Almighty
- Does not work.
- rather not say none of you buissness
- Doesn't work with google's new UI and it hasn't in a while.
- Anthony A.
- Doesn't work, on either Chrome or Vivaldi, and it appears the developer has abandoned it. No updates since 2018. :(
- Bryce !
- Ne fonctionne pas - Do not work
- Yung Zoink
- doesn't do jack
- J Morelli
- Doesn't work. No button. Does nothing at all! Waste of my time!
- Stephen Bayer
- Doesn't appear to work anymore
- LowandoS
- Больше не работает
- Philippe Carpentier-Savard
- Broken.
- Helena W
- Does not work anymore.
- Andrzej Pyszniak
- Doesn't work any more :(
- James Alexander Cameron
- Sadly Google changed the format of the image results page (result on the side), so this extension no longer works.
- Руслан Цуварев
- Не работает.
- Bryan Demont
- I'm giving this 1 star to get attention as this extension is no longer working (9-12-2019). I really loved this extension and it did its job perfect. I'm not sure what google updated or did to break this extension but I hope it can be fixed.
- Phuong Tran
- Loved this but it no longer works?? :'(
- Andriansah j
- Now it's not working since google update. Please upgrade this extension Thanks
- John Crichton
- Not working now.
- Thierry Berube
- its just not working anymore, please fix
- Gem7183
- Before it worked well but i think google images broke it because the search by image, and view image function is gone
- Thomas Adamantiou
- Will it be updated to the new google image search layout?
- Anonymous
- Did google update google images and the pluging is not working anymore?
- 宇治屋
- 対策されて軒並みダメになった ”画像を表示” ボタンを追加する拡張機能がようやく出てくれた！Great Works! Awesome extensions!! :-)
- Abbie Davis
- Excellent extension!
- Dustin
- works fine.
- Blase Zinck
- I had this extension for Firefox and I was hoping to use it in Chrome, but I was a little worried after reading reviews that it was recently broken by an update to Google Images. I'm happy to say that the developer must have updated his extension because it is working fantastically. Someone also said this extension injects ads into your results, which is completely false. I checked the extension's code myself and the code is straight to the point, it's very clean code and contains nothing even remotely suspicious.
- Paisano
- does not work with new google image UI
- Skill seizer
- some of the time it work but some it nevveer load like u never have it .
- Alexander Liu
- Was a little slow to start working, but worked after a while, and it surprised me. It was so seamless that I had thought that Google had added the buttons back! Nice job!
- I S
- Best!
- Iria Didi
- It worked absolutely wonderful until a few weeks ago. Since everyone is having the same problem and now Google doesn't even let you open images in a new tab I think it's Google's fault. Funcionaba de maravilla hasta hace unas semanas. Como todo el mundo está teniendo el mismo problema y ahora las imágenes ni siquiera se pueden abrir en una nueva pestaña me da que es cosa de Google.
- 정지민
- The one who programmed this is the pure joy of humanity. I humbly hope we deserve this treasure. It really works.
- Nitish Jadia
- EDIT: Doesn't work anymore. Great! It works. :D
- Rutwij Makwana
- Image download works but since it has permission to change the webpages you visit, it uses that to inject ads into your google search results and that too on the top (4 ads in total for me) which takes up half the page of my search result. The worse thing is that it does not say that this extension is responsible for the ads anywhere so removing them would be a pain in the butt.
- Леха Меломан
- Best extension.