Thread 105824803

>>105824803 (OP)
I really don't understand why they ruined their search engine

>>105824803 (OP)
I was searching yesterday with far more explicit images and it didn't complain. Is this some new filter they're A/B testing?

>>105824811
Google's job is to serve you ads, not what you were intending to find

>>105824803 (OP)
Yandex is the new GOAT, but they've been captcha-raped so half the time I cannot even use it, their captcha is more difficult than anything else on the internet.

>>105824826
It also happens when I trying to search an image that contains the word “shit” or “Nazi”, but searching some rule34 images still works
It seems it blocks irl erotica and swears and slurs

>>105824811
too many DEI hires

>>105824803 (OP)
google is completely useless since the plandemic., not just image search, but standard search too
I swear google had better search results in 2007 than 2025

>>105824811
saar pls. we are doing our best.
don't be racist

So is there any good replacement?>>105824853
I tried tandem but it doesn’t show any of results that close to the image I want to search

>>105824982
*yandex
Fuck auto correct

>>105824990
Your best bet is to try google, bing, yandex, and dedicated reverse image search engines like tineye, just upload to everything until you get a hit
There's nothing I haven't been able to find this way.

>>105824803 (OP)
Same with yandex. Looks like they gimped reverse search and image search in general.

Google can't find shit anymore. Fuck Google.

>>105824998
>google being google
>tineye does not work
>yandex and bing works but doesn’t show any results that similar to the image I want to find
Not sure it’s because the thing I want to search is a screenshot of the first second of a video

>>105824803 (OP)
before google image search was even a thing we all used to use tineye

>>105824913
>>105824811
small indian company please understand

>>105825058
Similar results = no direct matches found, typically

>>105824803 (OP)
yea it was already getting worse when they introduced the lens thing but the last few months it's been completely nonfunctional garbage. how can they fuck up this bad?
>>105824853
everyone hypes up yandex but it's never been able to find exact matches for me, just similar pictures, which makes it almost useless.

>>105825085
It's a well-kept secret, but Google has been deleting/de-listing
Anyone who regularly searches for old content can attest to this. Stuff you used to be able to find simply doesn't appear anymore since they don't have enough storage to keep old links indexed.
That's also why they removed the "[n] results found" and pagination as well

>>105825103
I used to love searching in exact quotes for a phrase to see how popular it was usin n results found. Other methods exist of course (google trends, books, archive.org) but this was a quick and useful one imo

>>105825058
use the yandex ru domain, its slightly better.

>>105824803 (OP)
post the image you searched.

Here you go ;)

>>105825135
braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap

>>105824961
In the search bar, you can add "before:2009" if you want to. I mostly do it, because... The search results WERE way better. Give it a try

>>105824853
>Yandex is the new GOAT, but they've been captcha-raped so half the time I cannot even use it, their captcha is more difficult than anything else on the internet.
Literally never had to doba captcha on yandex
Are you sure you aren't doing something wrong?

>>105825184
You're probably connecting with a goy user agent like google chrome on windows without incognito
I use firefox ESR on linux with cookies disabled, so they rape me

>>105824811
if their search engine worked, you'd be able to find unmoderated content.

>>105824811
this came out when they got sued by the government for being a monopoly
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/#prabhakar-raghavan
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
>Zitron tells the story of a boardroom struggle over search quality, in which Ben Gomes – a long-tenured googler who helped define the company during its best years – lost a fight with Prabhakar Raghavan, a computer scientist turned manager whose tactic for increasing the number of search queries (and thus the number of ads the company could show to searchers) was to decrease the quality of search. That way, searchers would have to spend more time on Google before they found what they were looking for.

the root cause that google needs to keep showing growth to shareholders (otherwise they'll become a "mature" stock instead of a "growth" stock and suddenly appear grossly overvalued), but they basically have the entire search market to themselves which makes further userbase-driven growth impossible - if 8bn people are using google, you can't really bring it to more people. the only way you can get growth is to make people search more, and the way to make them search more is to fuck up search: if they don't find what they're looking for first try, they'll have to search again...

>>105824803 (OP)
Sauce me up famplam

>>105825198
Im just using brave on windows or android.

>>105826012
So a turbo normalfag user agent, yeah

>>105825817
Holy shit

>>105825116
I used to do this all the time when I was studying English to learn correct collocations

>>105825817
metrics really are a disaster

>>105825817
based jeet destroying the monopoly from inside

>>105824853
I had zero success with yandex in past six months or so. At best it serves me similar images, at worst complete unrelated garbage that looks like ads.

>>105826716
Yandex is shit too. Everything is shit now.

>>105824803 (OP)
It doesn't work with IRL images, especially not asses.
However, it has actually gotten so much better at finding pictures on twitter that I'm unironically fucking impressed. Now it even gives you the link to the actual fucking tweet instead of any random literal who who ever retweeted the image.

>>105825229
THIS

>>105825817
>Prabhakar Raghavan,
ONE MORE REASON TO HATE INDIANS

>>105824868
>>105824803 (OP)
>tfw I get youtube thumbnails as image results

>>105824811
>I really don't understand why they ruined their search engine
what >>105824845 said
They will intentionally give you the wrong content just so you scroll more to view more ads (assuming you arent blocking them but they dont care)

I also find it funny how their AI also shits out half page irrelevant responses to what you are searching. Like if im searching "[some question] site:stackoverflow.com" im obviously intending to find the solution on stackoverflow so why bother giving me garbage from an AI? It doesnt help

>>105827083
>still using stackoverflow in 2025

>Open google lens
>CPU and GPU fans instantly hit 100% rendering a noise overlay for the entire page for some dumb fucking reason
should I bet all my money on shorting google

>>105824803 (OP)
One small discovery I made lately is wrapping a term in quotes gives better results (in the cases where you remember the unquoted terms results), even for single word search terms there appears to be an additional level of ai interpretation that quoting suppresses

>>105824853
Yandex is getting shittier since they stopped being Russian.
Still better than anything else though.

>>105824990
>yandex
Died after the war started. Their crawling is shite.

serious question, what is the best search engine nowadays? Google is dogshit, bing has always been dogshit, and duckduckgo/yandex are also shit

>>105828451
"The market will stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" -Keynes

>>105825817
>Zitron contrasts the background of these two figures. Gomes, the hero, worked at Google for 19 years, solving fantastically hard technical scaling problems and eventually becoming the company's "search czar." Raghavan, the villain, "failed upwards" through his career, including a stint as Yahoo's head of search from 2005-12, a presiding over the collapse of Yahoo's search business. Under Raghavan's leadership, Yahoo's search market-share fell from 30.4% to 14%, and in the end, Yahoo jettisoned its search altogether and replaced it with Bing.
>
>For Zitron, the memos show how Raghavan engineered the ouster of Gomes, with help from the company CEO, the ex-McKinseyite Sundar Pichai. It was a triumph for enshittification, a deliberate decision to make the product worse in order to make it more profitable, under the (correct) belief that the company's exclusivity deals to provide search everywhere from Iphones and Samsungs to Mozilla would mean that the business would face no consequences for doing so.

>use Brave search for USPS tracking number
>asks if I'm a robot from a basic fucking search
>some meme "we're not Google" captcha that takes longer than Google's
>first result is UPS website, wrong
>second result is USPS website, correct
>click on USPS link
>it's not even the link for the tracking number, it still wants me to paste the link in

Google search has gotten ten times shittier in the past decade, but it's still a hundred times better than any other search engine.

>>105824803 (OP)
there's no use case for reverse image search.

>>105824811
Burgers?

>>105825071
Which is the superior race now?

>>105829433
This is honestly the problem, any attempt at competition gets purchased or is driven by an ad company with the same negative motives, and now you can't fucking scrape or crawl anything because of everybody locking their shit down against AI spam

>>105825071
It's the genderstupids walking around with cat ears and pink hair, indians don't care about a picture of a butt

>>105824803 (OP)
and thats a good thing

>>105824811
>ruined
it works precisely as intended, it doesn't show you what they don't want you to see.

>>105825198
You just need to let them have your cookies, that way they can identify you, and not test that you're not a robot every time you search. I use firefox with betterfox on linux, and I only get the captcha if I started use a private window.
>inb4 le privacy
They already know your IP

>>105833252
>They already know your IP
Just like every page I connect to on the internet

>>105833562
yeah

>>105829171
its still google. At least when making text based searches.

>>105824803 (OP)
stop using google, you are the problem

>>105824811
short term monetary gain.

There was an article explaining it; they used to optimize for customer satisfaction, they switched ~2020 to optimizing for ad engagement

>>105829020
Why are they no longer Russian?