Yandex's reverse image search is indisputably far superior to google's reverse image search
I think it should be integrated into e621 to make it easier to find unknown artists and such

is it not already? is that just a re621 feature?

darryus said:
is it not already? is that just a re621 feature?

Yep. One of the many reasons it is so good.

Honestly, Yandex is my go-to reverse image search whenever I need a source or a higher-res version of an image. I don't know if a lot of users would use it giving it is an engine that isn't that known on the west but it would be sweet, it is a real life saver sometimes.
Even SauceNAO has a Yandex button as a fallback if the search returned nothing.

I use it often for finding actually similar images. Google basically does not do this. Yandex: Similar poses, body coloring, species, hair color, clipped versions of same image, etc. Google: Oh, they both have the color red in them or return search results of image search for (often poorly) guessed tag!

To be fair, Google often shows the censored and uncensored versions of the same image, if available.

I use Yandex semi-regularly and didn't know it was re621 that's adding the link there for me.

EDIT: PR #433

... Are we sure we want to be listing/using Yandex in any official capacity, given the, err, company "ethics" and fingerprinting?

votp said:
... Are we sure we want to be listing/using Yandex in any official capacity, given the, err, company "ethics" and fingerprinting?

I'll take a Yandex Image Search link over Yandex Metrica which was used for years:

topic #25079
https://e621.net/forum_topics/13631?page=2#forum_post_334785
https://github.com/zwagoth/e621ng/commit/b6566d197
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex.Metrica

votp said:
... Are we sure we want to be listing/using Yandex in any official capacity, given the, err, company "ethics" and fingerprinting?

How different would it be from Google?

azero said:
How different would it be from Google?

... Fair point?

azero said:
How different would it be from Google?

It actually finds the stuff you are searching for

dubsthefox said:
It actually finds the stuff you are searching for

Woooooosh, burn

dubsthefox said:
It actually finds the stuff you are searching for

Yeah both companies are tracking you equally
It's just one sucks at it's job and the other doesn't :3

If nobody else shares my reservations about using Yandex, then so be it. Given the current climate, and past actions of the GRU (and Yandex, both on it's own and in cooperation), I'm simply a bit hesitant to send anyone to their service without at least some form of advisory as to what entities they are engaging with, and their ties to state intelligence groups, similar to sending somebody to use Baidu services.

votp said:
If nobody else shares my reservations about using Yandex, then so be it. Given the current climate, and past actions of the GRU (and Yandex, both on it's own and in cooperation), I'm simply a bit hesitant to send anyone to their service without at least some form of advisory as to what entities they are engaging with, and their ties to state intelligence groups, similar to sending somebody to use Baidu services.

I don't see the appreciable difference between what they do and the relation western tech companies have with mostly US based intelligence agencies. If everyone needs a warning, there really isn't a reason to apply them at all.

what about sauceNAO? which is also natively supported here

dripen_arn said:
what about sauceNAO? which is also natively supported here

SauceNAO is cool, but it doesn't search on Twitter. Yandex finds stuff on Twitter... sometimes. Google does only find new Twitter posts.