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Agreed, with one caveat: DDG image search, in my opinion, is far superior to Google Images because it still allows you to right click -> save image and right cl
by dont__panic 5y ago
Agreed, with one caveat: DDG image search, in my opinion, is far superior to Google Images because it still allows you to right click -> save image and right click -> open image in a new tab (and it actually opens the image, not the page that contains the image).
Google Images has been deteriorating every year for over a decade now.
- luke2m 5y agoExactly. The view file button is also very useful.
- GuB-42 5y agoAbout Google Image, it stopped doing direct links as a result of a lawsuit by Getty Images. How does DDG get away with it? Another advantage of DDG/Bing is the ability to really turn off safe search. Unlike Google, it will not try to guess if you want nudity or not based on your search query, resulting in weird situations where you have to look for porn in order to get "anatomically correct" pictures.
- unknown_error 5y agoIn Google you can manually turn off safe search too https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/510/filter-explicit-results-using-safesearch-computer https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/510/filter-expli... That forces it off no matter what your query is. I, err, only know this because of anatomy class homework.
- dangrossman 5y agoGoogle filters out what it thinks are pornographic results for non-pornographic queries even if SafeSearch is explicitly turned off.
- unknown_error 5y agoHow do you know?
- dangrossman 5y agoBy searching for adult webpages I know exist, and not finding them until I add an adult word to the search query so they're not filtered out.
- markdown 5y agoThey should have just stopped displaying Getty Images in results. They're scam artists anyway, claiming to own public domain historic photos and selling them for a thousand bucks a piece.
- eric-lee 5y agoI don't use Google but as far as I can tell the behavior is very similar on both sites. (right click -> open image in new tab) on Google links directly to the image like DDG, though some are links to a data URL or cached versions of removed images on encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com
- unknown_error 5y agoIf that's the only thing holding you back from Google Images, this is a useful extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhcelnjdmblfmjabdeclccemkghjk https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhce... (not arguing for GI over DDG or any other image search, just pointing out that those UI issues -- which were coerced by publisher lawsuits, not Google's own preference -- can be trivially fixed with extensions)
- dont__panic 5y agoI'd also like to avoid using Google Search when possible to support alternatives. Sadly, your link is a Chrome extension, and as a Firefox user, it doesn't really resolve my problem at all.
- loudtieblahblah 5y agoDDG has a better image search b/c Bing has a better image search and the grand majority of DDG results are just scraped Bing results.
- slongfield 5y agoIt's probably not scraped, FWIW--Bing has a paid API: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/bing-web-search-api https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/bing-web-search-ap... (Can't find a source indicating that they're using this, but I'd be surprised if they weren't.)
- loudtieblahblah 5y agothey're probably using it. with the volume of traffic they're using, and the fact Qwant and every other 'private' search basically uses Bing results, paying for API access makes the most sense.