A couple of years ago I found a black and white photo from the late 1800s and wanted to figure out what station it was from. Google was useless and only showed unrelated stations, but surprisingly, Bing found a page with the exact photo on it. It was on one of those shitty scraper pages that just lists thousands and thousands of random photos, but nonetheless I figured out what station it was
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.
Strange, for me Tineye has not a single time been able to identify ANY of the images I ever tried. Yandex has worked best for me
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.
My last experience with bings reverse image search was in 2022 or so, so no vouches for its quality these days. I’ve had mixed results with tineye, but there was another one which I don’t even remember the name of that generated reverse search links for all the search engines, I think it even listed that Chinese one and a few others I’ve never heard of rather than being its own thing. I had decent luck with that, I found Bing still worked the best but I haven’t tried it since
Google lens definitely wins for object search though. Not the point of the post, I know, but it’s kind of funny how their reverse image search is dogshit but their object recognition is flawless
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.
Found it. It’s https://www.reverseimagesearch.com/. It doesn’t list as many as I thought, just google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu
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.
Neither ever worked for lineart. Photos? Used to be reliable, occasionally bordered psychic, now just dumb. Drawings? Yep, that’s a drawing. Did you need anything else?
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.
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.
https://pullpush.io is the good reddit search
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.
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.
The problem with tech is managers are wearing engineer coats and calling the shots with no true credentials.
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.
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 .
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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?
