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What's wrong with reverse image search?
Comment by joesii at 15/07/2019 at 19:32 UTC
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Nothing, it's just worse (in many cases) now than it used to be.
If you search for a specific image of like a specific car or person it will oftentimes identify the general traits in the image (ex. blue convertible, or red-haired girl), then serve up more images that match that description rather than which are specifically close to the specific image searched.
Debatably in some cases that may be more useful. As I mentioned much of it might be due to privacy or something.