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Anyone have any opinions on the state of image search? What do you use?

I find Google Image search, which I used to love, filled with absolute garbage now. 90% of links are to Pinterest which greets you with usual overlays, signup modals etc. I use DDG's image search because I find Google's search unusable.

Also, Yandex image search is probably the best reverse image search on the market. It's crazy how much better it is than Google.

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It's not that google isn't capable of providing much better search. It's that they are driven by interests other than the users actually doing the search. Google has some of the most advanced tech and engineers in the world. But they also have an endless list of issues they must address - no facial recognition, no racial bias, no sexual content, filtering specific politics, supporting partners, etc.

They also face huge amounts of legal pressure to make GI less useful and stripping out features so that more people follow through to the site and see the adverts.

DDG is ridiculous with resolutions. Categorizes 500×900 resolution as "Large". Otherwise it works for me as an image search engine. I usually return to google if I absolutely can't find what I'm looking for - google is better when it has to guess, with instructions like "yellow blob old game".

Yup I agree. It's surprisingly better.

Bing image search is much better too

!bi on DDG for me.

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