Google has started mixing ads right into the middle of image search results. It decreases search quality dramatically. Now when you search for images of a watch, you get watches that aren't even from the same manufacturer. I've actually switched to Bing for some searches.
Many users criticized Google for inserting sponsored ads into image search results, calling it money-driven enshittification that reduces result usefulness and harms user experience.
I noticed a lot of people in the replies suggesting duckduckgo, and they're right. This is the place to do image searches. Look how much better it is.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=patek+2573&iar=images&t=h_
Google has started mixing ads right into the middle of image search results. It decreases search quality dramatically. Now when you search for images of a watch, you get watches that aren't even from the same manufacturer. I've actually switched to Bing for some searches.
@Joobman No, but I wonder if the idea of a search engine is now obsolete enough to be promising...
@smiling_william @Joobman Once an idea becomes completely unfashionable, (a) everyone is ignoring it and (b) there's often an opportunity to redo it in an entirely novel way.
@paulg YouTube is basically unusable without Premium because of the ads.
And somehow, they seem to get even worse after you cancel your Premium subscription, i think it's their strategy to get users into subscribing again.
@paulg Have you been funding a search engine you could recommend? I m not being sarcastic, I mean it
Duckduckgo provides the following 3 that I find very useful (a user of their search service as my default on all devices):
1- http://duck.com email as to keep ur major email undisclosed 2- their browser extension to remove trackers as well 3- the AI answering service
I personally recommend it to EVERYONY.
@paulg I was part of the small team that explored this 10y ago.
Incredible how many image searches there are. Also incredible how many ways there are to introduce ads. Shocked this is what they went with.
@paulg @Joobman Why "obsolete enough to be promising"? Could you elaborate?
@paulg someone's gotta pay for all those gpus and tpus am i right
@paulg google's search quality has been really bad for some time. I usually go to @KagiHQ when google is failing or when the google search results feel like they were all paid
@paulg @blvckledge
@paulg @paulg Until recently, Bing stored passwords in plain text. Hopefully that has been fixed, but please be careful when it asks you to save a password
@paulg And it's even worse with Google maps
@GregMolnar @paulg @KagiHQ I stand corrected, they use an array of sources including their own.
I have to say, Kagi literally nails everything I throw at it. Have you given it a go? No ads, very fast, a helpful "quick answer" button if you want an AI response. Worth it imo
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html
@paulg @paulg try DuckDuckGo, it’s awesome actually
@smiling_william @paulg @Joobman i think he means it's viewed as a "solved" enough category, which indicates maybe there's a big opportunity hiding there
@paulg Try pinterest, I got good results from it.
@paulg Yeah, feels like it's time for Google Search to get a decent competitor again - they've become too complacent at this point
@paulg Google killing the „open image“ button is what made me switch to @DuckDuckGo many years ago. Use duckduckgo, it‘s mostly bing and just add !g to open your search result in google or !m for direct google maps search.
@paulg I suggest giving Duck Duck Go a shot too
For the Patek 2573
https://duckduckgo.com/?ia=images&origin=funnel_home_google&t=h_&q=patek+2573&iax=images