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What are some better image search sites?


Yandex. There is nothing that comes close for reverse image searching by a mile. It even has the same feature as bing where you can just copy paste the picture itself, no need to mess with urls. Bing is decent but reverse image is failing the same way Google's is. And Bing recently introduced the obnoxious full screen UI where it gives you products it found in the picture instead of doing a real reverse image search.


Unironically Bing is significantly better than Google at image and video search.

It's geospatial where Google really shines.


> Bing is significantly better than Google at image [...] search

I'd say it depends. It certainly has its strengths, and I have definitively encountered (image) searches where Bing's results where noticeably superior to Google's, but one area where for me Google shines and Bing fails is the ability to search for "site:example.com keyword" and as long as the search keyword in question is recognised by Google's image recognition pipeline, it'll return search results not just based on the classic "index nearby text and hope it's somehow related to the pictures" method, but also based on the actual image contents themselves.

With Bing either they don't do that kind of image recognition at all, or maybe it just doesn't work as well in conjunction with the site:-operator, or maybe its image recognition simply has a much more limited vocabulary as compared to Google (at least for the things I'm interested in) – in any case that kind of search for me simply works much better with Google.


DuckDuckGo image search has been working better than Google Images for me, for some time now.




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