Bing’s reverse image search is essentially dead in 2024 unless you’re uploading the Mona Lisa. It’s really, really terrible and even worse than Google.
My favorites right now are Tineye, Yandex, and Google, in that order.
Same, tineye only ever worked for me if I uploaded a picture that was by Reuters or something and therefore on lots of reputable sites. In any other cases it found nothing.
They know how to manipulate you to do/buy stuff you weren't looking for. That's what makes a profit.
It has always been this way (also in tech) because those things are the products of companies (main goal: profit, usually under a sneaky slogan), but it is becoming increasingly invasive. Don't be evil: think different.
It's about minimizing the annoyance for the majority of users who will misspell some popular thing.
Also, I believe that showing actually interesting content is bad for the businesses because it might make the user stop to think and pursue something meaningful instead of continuing to use the product.
So true. If I want to know how old a celebrity is, first result is something about their latest work that doesn't mention age, and then the next 3-4 are usually some ranking articles, "top 10 ceberities you didn't know were 50," and then Wikipedia comes in with the answer.
Privacy, for one thing. I don't use Google, Bing, Windows, or any Meta software*, and Yandex aren't much different.
Security, though, is another thing. I live in a NATO country, and I would imagine the Russian government are monitoring Yandex (and other RUnet services). Frankly, I think contributing any data to such a government would be against my interests.
There's also a lot of censorship on RUnet. Yeah, Google has that too, but Mojeek and Brave Search do not.
TL;DR: Google is data-hungry and supplies data to the NSA; Yandex is data-hungry and supplies data to the Kremlin; Mojeek and Brave Search are good; DDG and Startpage are the best for the average user.
I'm going to make the assumption that a lot of people on Lemmy are FOSS enthusiasts and are therefore adverse to anything closed source, especially a Russian web service...
Apparently the brigade has found you, but i want you to know that i agree (mostly). Obviously it kind of sucks tohavve Russian as the default language on everything you get from there, and there's some super-obscure music I've failed to find on there, but it's basically my first stop these days, whether it's Abbot Elementary or CompTIA training videos.
I had 6 years of Latin in school and remember less than 1% of it. Talk about a waste of time. Bada bing bada boom shoulda learned Italian-English rather.
It’s a little less awful when you’re not on a VPN, but even if it had twice as many captchas, it’s reverse image search is so much better than Google’s and Bing’s how that it’d still be worth it.
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Jesus Christ I guess I’m not misremembering.
Bing’s reverse image search is essentially dead in 2024 unless you’re uploading the Mona Lisa. It’s really, really terrible and even worse than Google.
My favorites right now are Tineye, Yandex, and Google, in that order.
Same, tineye only ever worked for me if I uploaded a picture that was by Reuters or something and therefore on lots of reputable sites. In any other cases it found nothing.
This sounds like what reverseimagesearch dot org does, but that only has 4 engines linked.
Please please come back when you remember the name of what you’re talking about.
I would search for it myself, but you know, it’s not 2003 to 2022 anymore.
Thank you!!
Just that name Tineye. Now I need to find images I have a reason to search.
Does it have connotations? I don’t know them.
Tineye? Yea it's used in Branden Sanderson's Mistbourne books. People have the ability to ingest different metals for different abilities.
People who ingest tin, gain heightened senses. Vision, hearing, touch, etc. They are known as "tineyes".
Cooooool. Thank you.
Yandex saved me from being catfished.
That horny milf was nowhere NEAR my area.
It does seem like the ideology of those inside google went from "tech" , to "I know better than you do". Not sure it's fixable really..
That's the problem with most tech these days. They assume they know the best way to do something or know better than you. Its infuriating
Spotify is a prime example of this. There are so many "features" I hate and that no one has asked for, yet shuffle doesn't even work.
Everytime I start spotify in ny office after listening on my commute, it tries to start playing on my phone since that was playing in my car.
Or when I was still there, Reddit search. Absolutely useless and so fucking smarmy with that stupid doge.
What do you mean by "shuffle doesn't even work"? Please qualify that statement.
they may be referring to how spotify's shuffle isn't a true "shuffle" in that it is biased to things you have listened to more, recently, etc
That's been the case for well over a decade going back to some of the earliest iPods. It's nothing new.
https://pullpush.io is the good reddit search
There's a weird smart shuffle thing which keeps happening
Are you talking about that thing where it plays the same exact music usually in the same exact order every time you start a new session
I think they're talking about the feature they seem to push hardcore that tries to guess what you want to hear, and then injects it into your playlist
Hm. I've never had an issue with just turning that off honestly.
The problem with tech is managers are wearing engineer coats and calling the shots with no true credentials.
Yeah, tech people nowadays have this attitude with most people, they only show some restraint when they think it's for other people like them.
They know how to manipulate you to do/buy stuff you weren't looking for. That's what makes a profit.
It has always been this way (also in tech) because those things are the products of companies (main goal: profit, usually under a sneaky slogan), but it is becoming increasingly invasive. Don't be evil: think different.
It's about minimizing the annoyance for the majority of users who will misspell some popular thing.
Also, I believe that showing actually interesting content is bad for the businesses because it might make the user stop to think and pursue something meaningful instead of continuing to use the product.
The Man Who Killed Google Search
Very interesting article. Prabhakar Raghavan's basically Ted Faro.
That was great, thank you for linking! I expected to just skim it and ended up reading the whole article and the follow-up
Damn, yeah, Ragavan is definitely killing Modern search
Unrealistic. I usually have to scroll way down in the results to find a link to wikipedia nowadays.
So true. If I want to know how old a celebrity is, first result is something about their latest work that doesn't mention age, and then the next 3-4 are usually some ranking articles, "top 10 ceberities you didn't know were 50," and then Wikipedia comes in with the answer.
Best erotica books 2024 listings occupy the first 5 positions.
There is a firefox addon for it called search by image not sure how good it is tho as i have never used it .
Yandex, my friends
I don't even care if the results are good. I'm not about to use any part of RUnet.
Honest question: why not? Facebook/Google/Microsoft are up to some disgusting shit, are their Russian counterparts significantly different?
Privacy, for one thing. I don't use Google, Bing, Windows, or any Meta software*, and Yandex aren't much different.
Security, though, is another thing. I live in a NATO country, and I would imagine the Russian government are monitoring Yandex (and other RUnet services). Frankly, I think contributing any data to such a government would be against my interests.
There's also a lot of censorship on RUnet. Yeah, Google has that too, but Mojeek and Brave Search do not.
TL;DR: Google is data-hungry and supplies data to the NSA; Yandex is data-hungry and supplies data to the Kremlin; Mojeek and Brave Search are good; DDG and Startpage are the best for the average user.
Don't be a pussy
Why noy? RuTracker is better than any other tracker, open or private.
I'm going to make the assumption that a lot of people on Lemmy are FOSS enthusiasts and are therefore adverse to anything closed source, especially a Russian web service...
What? We're talking about websites, not software here
Guess what websites are made of
Oh I know this one!
It's pipes, right‽
Tubes
I thought it was dump trucks
Apparently the brigade has found you, but i want you to know that i agree (mostly). Obviously it kind of sucks tohavve Russian as the default language on everything you get from there, and there's some super-obscure music I've failed to find on there, but it's basically my first stop these days, whether it's Abbot Elementary or CompTIA training videos.
Oh you too are versed in the language of Romance?
I had 6 years of Latin in school and remember less than 1% of it. Talk about a waste of time. Bada bing bada boom shoulda learned Italian-English rather.
Fuhgeddaboudit
Sounds a little suss. All the propaganda I see about Latin mentions its free word order.
I can't use Yandex as it just makes me complete endless capchas
Maybe you are a robot
Does that mean it should have its time wasted? Anti-robot bigotry is at an all time high and I, for one, think it's time for change.
Found another one.
It’s a little less awful when you’re not on a VPN, but even if it had twice as many captchas, it’s reverse image search is so much better than Google’s and Bing’s how that it’d still be worth it.
Also consider Tineye.
What’s yandex?
Russian search engine
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Man, Anon just wanted to know, "Whose tits are these?". Sad times.
Perversity and males in Japan. Name a better team.
I would bet money they're not from or in Japan. On this particular 4chan board you can choose any flag you want when posting.
They could be Weeaboo expats in Japan, but I agree definitely not born and raised in Japan, you can tell by how they write English.
Guns and schools in America. Name a better team.
The 95-96 Chicago Bulls, you despicable white knight weeaboo?
Weeaboo is when I make fun of you for generalizing an entire population
Which I didn’t do, you half witted ding dong? Can you read?