Re:Simple, Fast, and Scalable Reverse Image Search
by vintermann on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @11:10AM
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Well, yandex search was better for a while. Then Bellingcat managed to identify some spy with it. Then yandex got worse too.
I think maybe that's part of the picture.
Edit: I looked up the details again. It was an FSB officer named Andrei Burlaka, involved in the shooting down of MH17. Someone in Russia were selling their TV set online, and had taken a picture of the TV for the ad. It just so happened that Burlaka was on TV exactly that moment. Yandex images indexed the ad, leading the investigators to identify him.
I think maybe that's part of the picture.
Edit: I looked up the details again. It was an FSB officer named Andrei Burlaka, involved in the shooting down of MH17. Someone in Russia were selling their TV set online, and had taken a picture of the TV for the ad. It just so happened that Burlaka was on TV exactly that moment. Yandex images indexed the ad, leading the investigators to identify him.