Google-search – Why does google use 1000 char long image links

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When I copy an image address from the gallery on google.fr/images it copies this to my clipboard, why?

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It's a bit overkill for a hyperlink? what is google doing? I know that if I click on it again I get the real link, but it's a new thing from Google, it's weird!

Best Answer

As You can see from the prefix it's JPEG file encoded by base64 binary-to-text encoding scheme. So, it's not a hyperlink but the whole file instead.

Technically, You could use this in HTML, CSS, etc to save some extra requests and/or issues with offsite resource not being available anymore.

Various browsers and scrapers used to use that just to download the view of some web-page in single file.

Some random HTML example from the widths of the internet:

<img width="16" height="16" alt="star" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAQAMQAAORHHOVSKudfOulrSOp3WOyDZu6QdvCchPGolfO0o/XBs/fNwfjZ0frl3/zy7////wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAkAABAALAAAAAAQABAAAAVVICSOZGlCQAosJ6mu7fiyZeKqNKToQGDsM8hBADgUXoGAiqhSvp5QAnQKGIgUhwFUYLCVDFCrKUE1lBavAViFIDlTImbKC5Gm2hB0SlBCBMQiB0UjIQA7" />