Why would google give me that as the url when I right click the image from the google search and click "copy image location"?
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Because it is the image URL.
There is no file located of the server, they just added base64-form of picture inside their HTML. Sometimes it's used to reduce page weight, but usually with smaller pictures (like icons).
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If I click "visit" to go to the page where the image is located and then right click the image and copy the location, it gives me the real url to the image: http://themetapicture.com/media/funny-duck-afro-hair.jpg
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So does google create their own thumbnail to use on their search as base64 data and for some reason when I copied the url it gave me their data instead of the url to the image like it does with every other one?
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That's weird because I always copy all image url's that way. So something must have messed up in the google search and the url to the image wasn't available so it copied the url of their thumbnail which is actually just data. That's interesting, I didn't know you could input data into your browser like that and it would convert it.
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What this generally indicates is that the original image couldn't be loaded—either it no longer exists, or it threw an 'access denied' error, or some similar reason.
Google Images used to create its own cached copy of the image to display, which it would store on its servers (and therefore have a normal URI), and only show you the original source image if you clicked the 'View Image' button. A recent redesign changed this; now it shows you the Data URI thumbnail by default, and when you click the thumbnail, it tries to load the source image on the results page, and replace the Data URI thumbnail with it. But if it can't, because the original image threw an error, the thumbnail remains: which is why you copied it instead of the source image.
Also of note, there's no theoretical limit to the length of a Data URI. You could encode a 10 MB JPG image as a Data URI, which would be 2,796,227 characters long (in practice, enjoy your web browser crashing trying to load it, at least directly).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64, the "URL applications" section.
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But why would I get that when I right click the image from a google search and click "copy image location"? Isn't that kind of odd?
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a link you can use of that image https://i2.wp.com/wishmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Duck-Memes-74.jpg
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I found another copy of the same image, I was just wondering why it gave me what it did. I can actually use the original image if I go to the site. If I click "visit" to go to the page where the image is located and then right click the image and copy the location, it gives me the real url to the image: http://themetapicture.com/media/funny-duck-afro-hair.jpg
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It's best when that happens when you try to quickly share an image with someone in chat, but instead you end up filling the chat with that shit.
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With the number of games being released on Steam, we may end up having game keys that are this long one day :)
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At least some sites like Humble have already solved the hassle of any key length by putting a "redeem" button next to the key. Imagine if future keys were a slightly different image of a key which would be encoded in Base64, both cool and oh god at the same time.
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lol, but no, first 93.795.878.551.873.643.905.024 copies must be sold ^^ (34^15)
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Why 34? It's 26 letters plus 10 digits. Am I missing something?
Also, there are 25-character codes (which I've seen) and some mysterious 17-character codes "237ABCDGHJLPRST 23" (which I haven't) according to https://store.steampowered.com/account/registerkey .
So the real number (assuming all characters in the 17-character code can be letters and digits) is 808 281 277 465 050 793 517 017 391 621 732 302 848 or roughly 808 undecillion/sextillion (depending on short/long notation).
If the first three and the last two characters in the 17-character code are digits only and other are letters only then the number of codes is a "shy" 237 decillion/quintilliard (236 773 841 455 734 660 084 797 453 521 715 961).
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Why 34
2 letters aren't used, think it were o and i
25-character codes (which I've seen) and some mysterious 17-character codes
which are former retail-/special-case codes, unavailable for current devs, so first the 15' chars have to run out (they won't).
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You can visit the site and right click the image to open in new tab or find the same image from another site.
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It sometimes happens when you're too quick to copy a link as well! Google saves a lower quality thumbnail to use while it's loading, but will actually load the image itself into the place of the thumbnail as soon as it can. For whatever reason the full size image wasn't loaded yet. If you try it again after letting it sit for a couple of seconds it's usually fine.
And of course sometimes it just isn't, in which case you grab it from the page it was linked from instead.
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I just tried to post an image on the site and I got an error telling me that "comments are limited to 10,000 characters or less". Somehow the url I copied for an image I got in a google image search was over 10,000 characters. It has to be the longest url I have seen. I don't think it is the real url because you can go to the page and then copy the image url, but it does work as a url if you paste it in your browser.
Edit: From what I have learned from other user comments, google stores thumbnails of the images as base64 data. For some reason google was not able to get the URL of the image, so I ended up getting their actual data of the thumbnail image instead of the URL to the original image.
I removed the massive URL, since there's no point is posting it here.
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