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Re:With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs by DiThi on Monday July 31, 2017 @11:38AM (#14892951)
That may make the task more difficult, but still, even when I search gifs from very well know series like the Simpsons and I get a bunch of random Simpsons gifs (therefore I assume they got rights for short Simpsons clips) but none is remotely similar to the one I'm looking for. Then I go to google images and there it is among the first results.

Edit: It may have improved a bit lately, but it would be much, much better if they did OCR of text in gifs, and use the context of where the gifs are found (esp. page title) for additional search terms.

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Re:With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs by et-al on Monday July 31, 2017 @05:56PM (#14896230)
If you want Simpsons GIFs, have you checked out Frinkiac?
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Re:With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs by DiThi on Monday July 31, 2017 @06:44PM (#14896529)
Yes, currently I know it and use it. It was just an example on top of my head. Other series don't have an equivalent. And of course there's a lot of known gifs that don't come straight from TV. RightGif mentioned in another comment seems to work better for that purpose.
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