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Anyone have any opinions on the state of image search? What do you use? I find Google Image search, which I used to love, filled with absolute garbage now. 90%
by Jerry2 6y ago
Anyone have any opinions on the state of image search? What do you use?
I find Google Image search, which I used to love, filled with absolute garbage now. 90% of links are to Pinterest which greets you with usual overlays, signup modals etc. I use DDG's image search because I find Google's search unusable.
Also, Yandex image search is probably the best reverse image search on the market. It's crazy how much better it is than Google.
- kilroy123 6y agoYup I agree. It's surprisingly better.
- colordrops 6y agoIt's not that google isn't capable of providing much better search. It's that they are driven by interests other than the users actually doing the search. Google has some of the most advanced tech and engineers in the world. But they also have an endless list of issues they must address - no facial recognition, no racial bias, no sexual content, filtering specific politics, supporting partners, etc.
- SilverRed 6y agoThey also face huge amounts of legal pressure to make GI less useful and stripping out features so that more people follow through to the site and see the adverts.
- diegocg 6y agoBing image search is much better too
- godshatter 6y ago!bi on DDG for me.
- npteljes 6y agoDDG is ridiculous with resolutions. Categorizes 500×900 resolution as "Large". Otherwise it works for me as an image search engine. I usually return to google if I absolutely can't find what I'm looking for - google is better when it has to guess, with instructions like "yellow blob old game".
- golemiprague 6y agoTry image searching for "happy white women" vs "happy women" vs "happy black women" then compare it to the results in DDG. It is very interesting, not sure if it is political or the algorithm found that when people look for "happy white women" they mean it in this context of the results.