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Google is only the leader currently because people have forgotten how much better google 10 years ago was. Yandex destroys google today in image search by shipp

Google is only the leader currently because people have forgotten how much better google 10 years ago was. Yandex destroys google today in image search by shipping a product like 10 years ago google image.

janalsncm 4y ago
All of this assumes that the internet has not changed in the last ten years. It has. It’s much spammier, SEO garbage is ubiquitous, and popups and cookie consent banners make it feel like early 2000s. There was a brief period of time where Google was dominant where adblockers also worked and anyone smart enough to download chrome had a great experience. It’s not like that anymore and people are blaming Google.
- mrbungie 4y ago
  Yet parent has a point. If Yandex (or DDG or whatever) gets you better results in the same environment as Google, maybe it's not about said environment but more about the player (in this case Google).
  - janalsncm 4y ago
    I have far less to complain about with image search than normal web search. Maybe Yandex is better, I’d need some objective metrics to decide.
mytherin 4y ago
Feature were stripped from Google Image Search because of a lawsuit [1]. Yandex, Bing and others can offer a better image search because they are not big/important enough to sue in the US search engine market. If Google were to be dethroned, the company that would take over its current dominant position would also be sued and would likely have to make the same changes. [1] https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2020/01/what-happened-to-google-image-search-and-why-you-can-no-longer-view-images-directly/ https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2020/01/what-happened-to-googl...
- gs17 4y ago
  The changes from the lawsuit, AFAIK (and the article seems to agree) were removing "view image" and "search by image" from results. Google still had decent reverse image search back then, but now it might as well just throw your input image into Stable Diffusion.
- whywhywhywhy 4y ago
  Although true I don’t consider “lawsuit” an excuse and think the problem goes deeper to Google employees focusing on ML problems for career clout not customer solutions

janalsncm 4y ago

All of this assumes that the internet has not changed in the last ten years. It has. It’s much spammier, SEO garbage is ubiquitous, and popups and cookie consent banners make it feel like early 2000s. There was a brief period of time where Google was dominant where adblockers also worked and anyone smart enough to download chrome had a great experience. It’s not like that anymore and people are blaming Google.

mrbungie 4y ago
Yet parent has a point. If Yandex (or DDG or whatever) gets you better results in the same environment as Google, maybe it's not about said environment but more about the player (in this case Google).
- janalsncm 4y ago
  I have far less to complain about with image search than normal web search. Maybe Yandex is better, I’d need some objective metrics to decide.

mytherin 4y ago

Feature were stripped from Google Image Search because of a lawsuit [1]. Yandex, Bing and others can offer a better image search because they are not big/important enough to sue in the US search engine market. If Google were to be dethroned, the company that would take over its current dominant position would also be sued and would likely have to make the same changes. [1] https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2020/01/what-happened-to-google-image-search-and-why-you-can-no-longer-view-images-directly/ https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2020/01/what-happened-to-googl...

gs17 4y ago
The changes from the lawsuit, AFAIK (and the article seems to agree) were removing "view image" and "search by image" from results. Google still had decent reverse image search back then, but now it might as well just throw your input image into Stable Diffusion.
whywhywhywhy 4y ago
Although true I don’t consider “lawsuit” an excuse and think the problem goes deeper to Google employees focusing on ML problems for career clout not customer solutions