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   Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 22:29:46 JST Rusty Crab
   lately I've been frustrated searching images on kagi and not finding things all of the sudden.
   I have now discovered it's because Google's index has degraded even more and it's poisoning their result pool :niggavoid:
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 22:29:45 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @RustyCrab I use yandex image search. it's a lot better at some things (and a lot worse at some others)
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     a7 (a7@miss.mouse.services)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 22:36:04 JST a7

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     @PunishedD@clubcyberia.co @RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co first time I’ve hear it suggested cheapnrss being the reason

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     PunishedD (punishedd@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 22:36:05 JST PunishedD

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     @a7 @RustyCrab If it's not clearly indexed on KYM or Imageflip, you won't find it there. Google got big by being a proper full-Web indexing service. It exposed everything to people who knew how to search. Now it searches a heavily curated version of the web, not the whole thing. I can't prove it, but I think it finally got too expensive to index and look through everything they have, so they pared it down and figured it's good enough.
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     a7 (a7@miss.mouse.services)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 22:36:06 JST a7

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     @RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co image search been bad on google, I can never find the meme I want 😭

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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 22:36:25 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Nonsensical tbh.
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 22:42:05 JST Rusty Crab

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     @sun I have only had good luck with yandex reverse search
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 03:23:15 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Their expenses have just been going up so this doesn't really make sense.
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     PunishedD (punishedd@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 03:23:16 JST PunishedD

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     @bot @RustyCrab @a7 People forget how long Google has been around. There was a point where Google was competing with then-giant Yahoo, and Yahoo had individual people rating and categorizing every web page submitted to the index. The Internet really was small when Google made their Pagelink algorithm. Search results started degrading in the mid-2010s from what I saw. It seemed like the old index disappeared; there's some sites I KNOW were indexed since the late 90s that wouldn't be returned any more. Then they ditched the old version of the cache. Around the same time you saw the articles about the massive, expensive data centers Google was running. The Web had exploded, the Great Recession had hit their revenues, and even though they were still profitable they were clearly feeling the operating costs. Add in the politically-motivated censorship they put in place since roughly 2018, and the "trusted sources" bullshit they pulled in 2020, and you get a smaller subset of the web it's willing to search. I think they were so ready to do those things because they were already doing it to cut costs. The political motivation was just gravy.