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Alternatives to Google Lens (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by 10_0@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Seems like a extremely useful tool, just needs to not be Google, any alt recommendations welcome!

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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My main gripe with Google Lens is that it replaced Google Image Search on their browser. Used to be able to drag/drop an image into Google and it'd do an instant search for all similar/identical images. Now it opens Google Lens and it just gives me a bunch of "related links" instead of a proper image search.

To get the old functionality back, I need to use a "Google image search" add-on in my Firefox browser. It opens the old Google image search page.

I mostly use it to find higher resolution versions of old, grainy images, but Google Lens took that functionality away from me.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 1 year ago

Tineye usually produces better results

[–] jasonwaterfalls@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't need an extension to do that. I can use image search just fine with images.google.com.

[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I go to images.google.com for text searching images, but if you drag an image into the search bar there, it opens Google Lens now. That's my complaint. I want it to search for other versions of the image like it used to, not open Lens.

[–] jasonwaterfalls@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have the option to view image source.