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> Reverse image search has been gimped, no longer performs as well as it used to, and even Yandex always returns better results.

I'm actually finding that aside from programming related queries or searching for reddit threads, Yandex is now the best general search engine, beating out Google, Bing, the bing derivatives like DuckDuckGo and Brave search, and I imagine Yahoo.

It's insane to me that the quality of search has slipped so low, and it also makes me wonder what it is about Yandex that allows it to avoid the modern hellscape of SEO optimized websites that spend 10,000 words saying nothing. It feels like it's got to be something to do with the fact that they have some large bias towards the age of a website.

  > the bing derivatives like DuckDuckGo and Brave search

Brave search is not a Bing derivative.

Independent index, but still dependent on Bing for some results.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/20/brave_search/:

> The company said in June that "for some features, like searching for images, Brave Search will fetch results from Microsoft Bing,"

https://search.brave.com/help/independence:

> Third-party providers

> Microsoft Bing is a third-party provider to Brave Search.

Right, I believe they state that 99% of their search results are from their own index, and then 1% supplement that with various other sources including Bing, Google, etc.

The poster I replied to said it was a Bing derivative which was not correct.

Brave results look pretty similar to bing for me, and pretty dissimilar to Google. I've been using it for a while since it's now the Brave default, and I just doesn't seem to break ranks from DDG/Bing whenever I bother to compare them.

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