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Japan anon complains about Google (lemmy.world)
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[-] Baku@aussie.zone 80 points 4 months ago

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

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] net00@lemm.ee 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Found it. It's https://www.reverseimagesearch.com/. It doesn't list as many as I thought, just google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

Thank you!!

[-] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

This sounds like what reverseimagesearch dot org does, but that only has 4 engines linked.

[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Just that name Tineye. Now I need to find images I have a reason to search.

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

Does it have connotations? I don’t know them.

[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

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".

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

Cooooool. Thank you.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

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?

[-] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 75 points 4 months ago

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..

[-] ArtificialLink@lemy.lol 18 points 4 months ago

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

[-] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

What do you mean by "shuffle doesn't even work"? Please qualify that statement.

[-] businessfish 8 points 4 months ago

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

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

That's been the case for well over a decade going back to some of the earliest iPods. It's nothing new.

[-] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

https://pullpush.io is the good reddit search

[-] UckyBon@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

The problem with tech is managers are wearing engineer coats and calling the shots with no true credentials.

[-] lorty@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] TheCorminator@lemmy.ml 46 points 4 months ago

The Man Who Killed Google Search

[-] Zibitee@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Very interesting article. Prabhakar Raghavan's basically Ted Faro.

[-] savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

That was great, thank you for linking! I expected to just skim it and ended up reading the whole article and the follow-up

[-] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Damn, yeah, Ragavan is definitely killing Modern search

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago

Unrealistic. I usually have to scroll way down in the results to find a link to wikipedia nowadays.

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 months ago

Best erotica books 2024 listings occupy the first 5 positions.

[-] suction@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Perversity and males in Japan. Name a better team.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 16 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] suction@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago

Guns and schools in America. Name a better team.

[-] suction@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The 95-96 Chicago Bulls, you despicable white knight weeaboo?

[-] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

Weeaboo is when I make fun of you for generalizing an entire population

[-] suction@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Which I didn’t do, you half witted ding dong? Can you read?

[-] Legend@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 months ago

There is a firefox addon for it called search by image not sure how good it is tho as i have never used it .

[-] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

:(

[-] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Man, Anon just wanted to know, "Whose tits are these?". Sad times.

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