Google Image Search is deteriorating in certain areas for years. Namely:
* Reverse Image Search (sometimes no matches although image is for sure out there). I wonder if Reverse Image search sometimes broken because of copyright?
* NSFW images (I'm really old enough and I don't need to be protected by Google or anyone else, I think it's a kind of censorship)
* And now also Creative Commons as pointed out by Op
The best alternative (tested them all) is in my opinion
P.S.: I know Yandex is based in Russia, I only use it for specific image searches and I'm happy we have a good alternative based outside of USA... I wished there were more in the World.
It's amazing how they have destroyed the reverse image search for the last 3/4 years. It's since the switch to ML and the identification of keywords, they don't seem to have image hash search anymore.
Yandex is the best image search. It even has something better than duplicate search - I believe they do embedding based similarity. It works like lexica.art, a recent diffusion image search engine.
Bing is second best after Yandex and better than Google sometimes. But Yandex still outperforms in my subjective view especially on Reverse Image search.
Hrmm, I tried reverse-searching for the last photo I took - of the USNS John Glenn at the port of Oakland - and both Yandex and Google return similar results, but the Google result returns instantly and Yandex took nearly a minute. What's an example of a search where Yandex does much better?
* Reverse Image Search (sometimes no matches although image is for sure out there). I wonder if Reverse Image search sometimes broken because of copyright?
* NSFW images (I'm really old enough and I don't need to be protected by Google or anyone else, I think it's a kind of censorship)
* And now also Creative Commons as pointed out by Op
The best alternative (tested them all) is in my opinion
https://yandex.com/images/
Chrome extension for reverse image search supporting Yandex
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fast-image-researc...
Android app supporting Yandex for Reverse Image Search
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thinkfree....
P.S.: I know Yandex is based in Russia, I only use it for specific image searches and I'm happy we have a good alternative based outside of USA... I wished there were more in the World.