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What happened with the Search function for images?

Somewhere along the line the quality and quantity of jpg images one could find using the Search function for "From the Web" has gone drastically downhill. For a while there, it was just a few images that were evidently from artists with whom you must have had a falling out, because when one went to pull and drop them onto a map, nothing happened, it was as if they didn't exist. That was bad enough. But NOW, forget it. Try typing in "door".... you used to at least get a smattering of map-ready tokens that you could drag and drop and voila, instant door. Now all you get are PICTURES of doors. Same thing with something as innocuous as "ship", with equally hilarious (and useless) results. Try it for yourself. Basically it has turned into a situation where if we don't have usable art already saved in our library, we aren't able to pull anything up on a whim anymore. Why??
That "From the Web" Option broke long ago when Google changed the way they allowed searches from within a web site. This thread has a better explanation. Basically, what you've been seeing in that search are cached images from mostly defunct web sites. As the caches degrade, those images dissappear.
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Gauss
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To add to what Rick has written,  "From the Web" has not changed recently, the Art Library's dropdown menu did.  The art library's dropdown menu used to default to "Token" but this caused problems when searching for Marketplace products in the Art Library. The Devs switched the default to "Everything".  In order to see what you are used to seeing please switch "Everything" to "Token".  Of course, that won't fix the other issue, that many of those links are basically dead, but that is due to what Rick stated. From the Web is not a search, it is an archive of a search from nearly a decade ago and many of those links have died over the years. 
Gauss you hero!
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Marketplace Creator
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