Best Image Searching Tools / Sites (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by WUED@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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What do you use to find images online these days? Google image search is useless, and I don't think the other major ones are much better.....

You want large decent quality images you say? Sure, here's some thumbnails, and previews from videos, actually here's some OK looking results but don't click them because the images aren't actually there. No good? What about some Pinterest links or other sites you need to subscribe to or login to, but don't bother doing that because the image probably won't be there when you do...

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[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I honestly don't need to RIS much but I've anecdotally heard good things about Yandex Image Search. Specifically for... ahem sensitive searches

[-] catsup@lemmy.one 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you're on Firefox, look for a browser extension called "image search", it has a whole bunch of reverse image search engines

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Google Image search: Can I interest you in some results from Pinterest? No? How about all of the results from Pinterest?

Edit: actually helpful comment: I usually use tin eye, it does a pretty good job of digging up original sources for images. Apparently Bing image search is really good for porn, so I'm told anyway.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

-site:Pinterest.com

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Don't forget any of their thousand other top-level domains while you're at it, they blast Google with every single one.

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