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Switch to Tin-Eye search.

knaik94 4y ago
That's not a solution, tin-eye is a reverse image search tool. This is affecting all image search results on google. I do use Tin-eye and have found it only useful for finding larger dimension relatively exact matches. It can handle crop and color filters but not much more. Yandex reverse image search is currently the only useful reverse image search left that can do fuzzy matching. Like if I reverse image search a picture of a cathedral I took, it'll find other pictures of the same cathedral, even taken from different angles. Google and Bing used to be great, Google's is terrible when you include a human subject in the picture, and Bing is very very inconsistent. I have had times where I reverse image a picture and Bing finds nothing except ones a little bigger in dimension, but then I search using one of the bigger ones and it finds similar pictures like expected. It's literally the same picture, just cropped less, no color filters or watermarks.
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
  You can use url's of images found on google/bing to further refine Tin-Eye search results.
  - knaik94 4y ago
    On desktop most browsers have extensions that restore and augment the image search functionality. You can install one of them and not really have to worry about urls. From my knowledge, "find other sizes" is available on every reverse search service. I think Tin-Eye needs to update their interface a little, because it's better able to find the biggest image available online. But I have been running into a lot of dead links on when I search for something. I have to click like through 4 to 5 links before I find a working one, if I find a working one at all. I'm not sure how often they update their db.
    - iggldiggl 4y ago
      > But I have been running into a lot of dead links on when I search for something. It can still be interesting to know when an image was first seen, even if the link is now dead. Also sometimes a page only moved URLs or changed its site structure and the picture somehow didn't get indexed at the new location, so the dead URL still helps in tracking things down (rarely, but still). Sometimes you can find something on the Internet Archive. Also in my experience Bing has a similar tendency of never letting go of things once it has indexed them, even when the result has been dead for quite a while. On the one hand this can be frustrating, but sometimes having just Bing's image preview is still better than nothing at all.
freedomben 4y ago
Is this a reference to (utterly spectacular) "Mistborn" series?

That's not a solution, tin-eye is a reverse image search tool. This is affecting all image search results on google. I do use Tin-eye and have found it only useful for finding larger dimension relatively exact matches. It can handle crop and color filters but not much more. Yandex reverse image search is currently the only useful reverse image search left that can do fuzzy matching. Like if I reverse image search a picture of a cathedral I took, it'll find other pictures of the same cathedral, even taken from different angles. Google and Bing used to be great, Google's is terrible when you include a human subject in the picture, and Bing is very very inconsistent. I have had times where I reverse image a picture and Bing finds nothing except ones a little bigger in dimension, but then I search using one of the bigger ones and it finds similar pictures like expected. It's literally the same picture, just cropped less, no color filters or watermarks.

TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
You can use url's of images found on google/bing to further refine Tin-Eye search results.
- knaik94 4y ago
  On desktop most browsers have extensions that restore and augment the image search functionality. You can install one of them and not really have to worry about urls. From my knowledge, "find other sizes" is available on every reverse search service. I think Tin-Eye needs to update their interface a little, because it's better able to find the biggest image available online. But I have been running into a lot of dead links on when I search for something. I have to click like through 4 to 5 links before I find a working one, if I find a working one at all. I'm not sure how often they update their db.
  - iggldiggl 4y ago
    > But I have been running into a lot of dead links on when I search for something. It can still be interesting to know when an image was first seen, even if the link is now dead. Also sometimes a page only moved URLs or changed its site structure and the picture somehow didn't get indexed at the new location, so the dead URL still helps in tracking things down (rarely, but still). Sometimes you can find something on the Internet Archive. Also in my experience Bing has a similar tendency of never letting go of things once it has indexed them, even when the result has been dead for quite a while. On the one hand this can be frustrating, but sometimes having just Bing's image preview is still better than nothing at all.

freedomben 4y ago

Is this a reference to (utterly spectacular) "Mistborn" series?