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As far as I can tell, that makes for 5 independent image search engines on the web: Baidu Bing Brave Google Yandex You can compare their r
by mg 3y ago
As far as I can tell, that makes for 5 independent image search engines on the web:
Baidu
Bing
Brave
Google
Yandex
You can compare their results on this search comparison page I maintain:
https://www.gnod.com/search/?engines=p,o,br,n,q&nw=1 https://www.gnod.com/search/?engines=p,o,br,n,q&nw=1
(If you want to also search image libraries like Flickr and Pexels, click on "more engines" to select all places you want to search)
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- SomeoneOnTheWeb 3y agoShouldn't Kagi (https://kagi.com https://kagi.com) also be on that list?
- MildRant 3y agoSomeone will correct me if I'm wrong but Kagi uses Google search results. I'm sure it's more complicated than that and they have their own secret sauce but it is not an independent search engine. See: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/kagi-vs-google.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/kagi-vs-google.html
- anderber 3y agoI believe you're correct. Kagi just uses Google's API and makes some changes on top of it.
- Terretta 3y ago> Someone will correct me if I'm wrong but Kagi uses Google search results. Click two links down in the same menu: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/kagi-vs-brave.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/kagi-vs-brave.html Kagi Search includes anonymized requests to traditional search indexes like Google and Bing as well as sources like Wikipedia, DeepL, and other APIs. We also have our own non-commercial index (Teclis), news index (TinyGem), and an AI for instant answers. Teclis and TinyGem are a result of our crawl through millions of domains, focusing primarily on non-commercial, high-quality content. Our unique results combined from all of these sources help you discover the best content you can possibly find online, sometimes from the quieter places on the web.
- MildRant 3y agoI would say using Google and Bing makes it not independent but they could invest in further developing their own index if they wanted to go independent.
- silisili 3y agoNice! I actually like Brave here for my test better than Google. I typed in a few cities, just wanting to see the skylines and such. Brave gives me good photos, some stock photos, etc. Google gives me pictures from recent news articles, which isn't overly helpful IMO.
- isaacremuant 3y agoBrave is the one that censors less, from all those. Specially doesn't censor for political motives that I'm aware of. That already makes it worth of support. But Google having become so bad of late has made switching quite easy, even if brave is not getting better super fast, Google unfortunately is getting worse and making up for it.
- magicalist 3y ago> Specially doesn't censor for political motives that I'm aware of What are the censored image searches you found?
- reitanqild 3y agoTry to search for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. That tends to upset some engines including Bing I think.
- yreg 3y agoBaidu doesn't show anything relevant as expected, but Bing, Brave, Google and Yandex show similar results. Not overly graphic, but the photos are there.
- the_third_wave 3y agoI just did and found that Baidu is the only one to censor all images related to the protests and massacre. Bing may filter out these images when used in China (I tried searching in Chinese with the browser set to request Chinese-language results, this did not affect the search results) but it does not seem to do so for me (Sweden, Linux, Firefox).
- jaystraw 3y agoI'm sure this isn't in the spirit or meaning of what you said, but to respond jokingly, I haven't found many censored anythings :-P turns out...
- isaacremuant 3y ago
- ShrigmaMale 3y agoahrefs c.f. yep.com
- fsflover 3y agoOne more, which is self-hosted, peer-to-peer and FLOSS: https://yacy.net https://yacy.net
- vGPU 3y agoYacy search results/ranking are worse than useless
- fsflover 3y agoBecause too few people are participating.
- vGPU 3y agoI run a senior peer. The issue is the metadata ranking is garbage, the documentation extremely lacking, and the support is nonexistent. The software is confusingly laid out, with various options strewn all over the place and absolutely no clue given as to what they do. If you want a peer driven search engine, perhaps the quick start guide shouldn’t involve having to read the source code.
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- esperent 3y agoI accidentally found a good test string for image search a few months ago: Bamboo sign Give it a try on Google images. You'll see that nearly all the results are x-rays of people with ankylosing spondylitis, a form of which is commonly referred to as "bamboo spine". I tested out brave search - it correctly shows 90% signs however it does also show a few spines. Google still shows incorrect results months later. It's by far the worst of all the search engines in the list for this simple and obvious search.
- firejake308 3y agoActually, the Google result is not incorrect. In radiology, an X-ray of a patient with ankylosing spondylitis is said to display the "bamboo sign", a real medical term describing the appearance of the backbones. Google is showing the result that is more relevant to thousands of medical students (such as myself) who are trying to understand a radiology report, but that may not be relevant to someone who just wants a sign made out of bamboo
- NooneAtAll3 3y agodoes searx count as independent?
- esperent 3y agoIt's not a search engine, I think? It's a search aggregator - it combines results from other search engines.
- ColinHayhurst 3y agoYou missed out Mojeek. For an independent take: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/ https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...