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Yandex reverse image search is very good. I use it more than tineye, bing, or goog. It either gives you the exact matches if it can find them, or else it can in
by imglorp 4y ago
Yandex reverse image search is very good. I use it more than tineye, bing, or goog. It either gives you the exact matches if it can find them, or else it can infer what is desired and show many similar matches.
- SV_BubbleTime 4y agoHmm, didn't know they had one, but I'm let down by Google's 90% of the time so I'll try it next time.
- SanjayMehta 4y agoYandex regular search is very good too, especially at surfacing results which appear to be censored by Google. The only problem is the interface language keeps flipping back to Russian.
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- kilroy123 4y agoI agree. I use it when I'm searching for "iso" torrents.
- account42 4y agoIs there a meta search engine that highlights results from Yandex that are missing from or ranked much lower on Google?
- SanjayMehta 4y agoSearx used to highlight the source engine. I don't remember ever seeing yandex though.
- rcfox 4y agoI wonder if that's a function of their technology or their database. Google's image search used to be good, but regulations have forced them to cripple it in some ways, and they might have chosen not to surface results in some contexts.
- ASalazarMX 4y agoNot only regulations, Chrome's builtin image search uses Google Lens to find products to sell you instead of simple reverse searches. It has become useless.
- inquirerGeneral 4y ago[dead]
- essentia0 4y agoAgreed, nobody's life improved after they switched to that. There's stll a "Find image source" button above the picture in Google Lens that more or less does what you want
- MonkeyMalarky 4y ago100% this. Google Lense is a product search engine, not image search.
- recrof 4y agonitpick: "lense" is not a word.
- mkl 4y agoAgreed. You can currently do two-step process to get to the old useful search by clicking "Find image source" in the side-bar Lens results, but it's inconvenient enough that I barely use it any more. In some browsers/profiles I use a "Search by Image" extension that still works properly. When Chrome first made Lens the built-in image search, there was a way to turn it off. Does anyone know if that's still possible by some more-hidden method?
- Psype 4y agoTotally. Even the regular search is mostly made of selling links. And in quantity, it seems like 9/10th of the content is gone.
- throwaway0x7E6 4y ago
- bakugo 4y agoIt's also unexpectedly good at finding the original full images from cropped versions.
- Strom 4y agoNot just cropped, the perspective and colors can be wrong. That is, you can take a photo of a poster on a wall from an angle, and it will give you the original image. It's impressive.
- ncpa-cpl 4y agoTheir Street View product is also very good, however their coverage is mostly for ex Soviet Union countries
- holografix 4y agoHad no idea this existed. Fascinating
- Scoundreller 4y agoheh, I remember looking up some satellite maps of French prisons on Google maps. They were blurred!!!! https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Centre+P%C3%A9nitentiaire+de+Paris+la+Sant%C3%A9/@48.8337878,2.3380657,525m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47e671bfc19257f5:0x759ab178360433b0!8m2!3d48.8337878!4d2.3402597 https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Centre+P%C3%A9nitentiaire+d... A quick trip over to Yandex, and there they were in their full glory: https://yandex.com/maps/10502/paris/?l=sat&ll=2.340173%2C48.833775&mode=search&sll=2.338066%2C48.833788&text=48.833788%2C2.338066&z=18 https://yandex.com/maps/10502/paris/?l=sat&ll=2.340173%2C48....
- asdff 4y agoIt's funny when countries fuzz up their google maps images of military bases, or oil companies, or whatever. The US military clearly thinks doing that is a joke: you can zoom in on area 51 and look at parked aircraft.
- astrange 4y agoThe US just knows where all the satellites are well enough that they hide the good stuff inside when something's scheduled to fly over.
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- coolandsmartrr 4y agoProbably because of legal compliance than technical reasons
- 29athrowaway 4y agoIt also sucks for privacy.
- fIREpOK 4y agoIts good for privacy if you don't live in Russia... I don't think that they share the data with US governments?
- timka 4y agoI tend to think that it's not the govs tracking us that we should care about but the big tech. Yandex is one of them.
- fIREpOK 4y agoThere are multiple levels of tracking... Governments being the top levels, then maybe global communication companies along with big tech titans... etc... AkA a complicated forest and/or tree of data?
- timka 4y agoThat's complicated indeed. When I start thinking about who can track me (wi-fi, bluetooth and RFID scanners and surveillance cameras everywhere, my telecom provider, banks, public transportation, gmail etc., browser fingerprinting…) I just don't see any practical way to ultimately hide. Add the fundamental lack of trust to any device using ICs (evidence-based, field verifiable) and it becomes just insane. In practice I just use a dumbphone and turn on my smartphone only to get a taxi (Yandex) or maybe see if my bus is coming (again Yandex). But my wife has her smartphone always on spying on us, not to mention all my colleagues. Also on my laptop I do use Yandex market, maps and read articles on Zen… I can imagine that deep awareness of digital security issues may make one's life better in some situations but there's always a risk of becoming too much of an activist here. I think I'm quite geeky already.
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- vintermann 4y agoI think they also made it dumber after Bellingcat used it to identify a secret service officer. Interesting to see if we can find any trace of that in the git history.
- computerfriend 4y agoAllegedly it's snapshot data, not the actual Git repositories.
- dotancohen 4y agoBy the size of the dump, my guess is that each tarball is a repo with the .git or .svn dir intact. But I cannot download it now.
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- spaceman_2020 4y agoYandex translation and maps were also substantially better than Google in Russia when I traveled there in 2019
- Finesse 4y agoThey are better not only in Russia. Many Google services feel outdated, sloppy and overcomplicated after using Yandex for a while.
- actualwitch 4y agoIt is not hard being better at translation than google at this point. Probably the best option right now is deepl.
- wolfgx 4y agoI like that I can just drag & drop or paste any image into Yandex Translate website and it translates anything, also it has a better language detection than google translate, so you don't have to waste time to look the language you want to translate from. So far I haven't found any alternative, other than Bing translate desktop app...
- tpm 4y agoGoogle Lens translates images too.
- NicoJuicy 4y agoI actually doubt that a lot of that magic will be shown, as models ( because of ml ops) won't be in code.
- comfypotato 4y agoMy understanding is that it has reverse facial recognition as well. Very cool. Also, it’s an interesting foray into the ethics of AI in that this could easily be used for nefarious reasons. (You can snap a photo of anyone who’s been indexed and find them online very easily.)
- unkulunkulu 4y agoOur cat once demolished a nice chair in a rental apartment. The chair belonged to the owner. At first we could not find where to get a replacement, but yandex reverse image search helped to my surprise!
- wolfgx 4y agoAgree. Here are two comparisons of some searches - [https://i.imgur.com/RmMWSG4.png https://i.imgur.com/RmMWSG4.png] and [https://i.imgur.com/sIOhx6y.png https://i.imgur.com/sIOhx6y.png] In 2022 even Bing beats Google..