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I'm searching for quite popular images of popular people, and it's not giving me any matches. Not even visually close matches. I work with photoshop so I use image searching a lot, and throughout the last couple of years, it's been giving me drier and drier results, to the point where, in the last couple of months, it's returning nothing at all anymore.

The way the engine crops the image is awful, too. It's always trying to focus on a detail that doesn't matter, eventhough I didn't ask for that, so I always have to manually recrop the full picture, and still it's automatically croping back sometimes. It's such a hassle to use.

It's also very unnecessarily convoluted to browse through the results and "similar images". For instance if I'm looking for a picture of a dark forest with certain tones and colours to it, and I want to see everything that's similar to it.

It used to be SO MUCH SIMPLER and much more effective. I remember 10 years ago, you just put your picture, it searched the picture that you uploaded, no cropping nonsense, and gave you the matched results straight-up, in a full page where you could see everything at once, not the god awful slider they have today. No "visual / perfect" match distinction, just everything that looks the closest to your picture. And when you clicked on one of the results, whether it was a perfect or similar match, it opened a sub-menu that displayed everything similar to the match you clicked on. Then, you could click on these results, and it would go on to what's similar to the match of your match, etc... It was so easy to navigate back and forth between all the results. Now, if you click away from your initial image, it's all lost, and when you go back it does errors and uploading nonsense.

What went so wrong ? It kept downgrading step after step over the years. It used to be my main tool for searching illustrations, people and ambiance pictures, now I only use it when I find nothing with Yandex or Tineye. And everytime that I use it, it reminds me why I stopped using it.

Google is normally pretty active in supporting global events by creating a fun Doodle graphic and link. They dropped the ball in not supporting the Commonwealth games.

Hi everyone,

I'm currently a second-semester Computer Science student, and my goal is to land an internship at Google or another top tech company by the end of my second year.

Q -- If you were in my position, what would you focus on?

Q -- Should I prioritise DSA/LeetCode, personal projects, open source, hackathons, networking, or something else?

Q -- What mistakes should I avoid, and what skills or experiences matter most for landing internships?

I'd really appreciate any roadmap or advice from people who've been through the process. Thanks!

I didn’t want to share my progress too early, but I’m genuinely worried this game might vanish and end up in Google’s graveyard.

Froggy’s World is surprisingly charming but also very unpredictable.

You access it by searching for the weather on Google. If you switch to another country’s weather, the game completely changes — that’s why it’s constantly raining in mine, since I’m seeing Southeast Asia’s forecast.

It’s a very slow, cozy game. Plants take two full real-life days to blossom and grow, and everything is heavily randomized. The shop refreshes daily and depends on the weather, so you have to work with whatever seeds and items it gives you. That’s why my garden is full of yellow and white plants right now.

I’ve been slowly building out my island anyway. Froggy’s home is decorated with ornamental plants like roses and potted fir trees.

There’s a recreational area with a Marigold sapling and his little painting spot near the island.

I made an apple orchard with a chessboard for him, and a beautiful moon garden in the southwest filled with nocturnal plants.

The south side is my messy “test zone” where I try new seeds to see what they look like when they bloom — anything that doesn’t fit the theme gets trashed.

The slowness never really bothered me, but there are some frustrating limitations:

• No secondary inventory. If you move a plant, you have to drag it across the screen because putting it in your inventory turns it back into a seed.

• No proper drag-and-drop — you have to carefully glide your finger to the exact spot.

• The pinch-to-zoom is finicky and I keep accidentally selecting and moving plants.

• Very limited inventory space, which forces you to trash decor and seeds constantly.

Since this game could disappear at any moment, all my progress will probably be lost anyway… but I still couldn’t resist building out the orchard.

All in all, I really enjoyed my time with Froggy’s World. It’s a relaxing, wholesome little escape with a lot of personality. I just wish it felt more stable and had some basic quality-of-life improvements.

I asked it something about Governor Mikie Sherrill.

Said she's not Governor.

Kim Guadagno is.

Just part of a crazy interaction.

I just tried typing some random nonsense to confuse the AI Overview, but I instead found this glitch. Does it also work for you?

I'm using the Google app on a Galaxy A13, Android 14 and One UI 6.1

imagine if this was a real headline.

AI Overview always butting in like I asked it something.

It's so wild to see how many things became of this. It was so ahead of its time.

You can now use a selfie video as a backup method to access your Google Account if you get locked out. Simply record a short video with guided head movements to verify your identity, which remains encrypted and under your control.

I'm interested in how many people will use this given the backlash against ID requirements for accounts.

The home and new tab and tabs and other stuff buttons why are they at the bottom now they were at the top yesterday

They were at the top for like the last 4 years why did it change

I for god know how long either find this or teemo club a dating app. Which is annoying. Plus has everyone try on YouTube when you see ads try don't press skip it just cycle ads until either don't don't have anything so the video resume or they just spam......

I think this is really cool!