In its complaint to the European Union’s antitrust commission, Getty says Google Images, which displays full-screen slideshows of high-resolution copyrighted images, has hurt the stock agency’s licensing business as well as content creators worldwide. Google first introduced the feature in Jan. 2013. Previously, the search engine only displayed tiny thumbnails of images.
Google does nothing to educate their users that copying photos in search results is an infringement of copyright law and the rights of the photographers. When you right click on a photo in Google Images, there should be an overall asking you to agree to not use the photos, host or hot-link w/o permission from the photographer (in photos that have EXIF Copyright information).
You can find all of my photos on Google Images. I see them used on eBay auctions a lot lately and the eBay sellers say “I didn’t know it was a copyright image. I found it on Google”