# Google Image Search

9 Hacker News commenters recommended Google Image Search and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for reverse image lookup and finding direct matches with few false positives. Critics say image search has gotten worse over time and is useless for some.

## Why people recommend it

- Good results compared to competitors (2 comments): "It's pretty good compared to its competitors." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671107)) "you get good results also" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827244))
- Matching uploaded images (2 comments): "Occasionally use google image search for matching an uploaded image." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266481)) "putting the image through Google Image Search as an alternative" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994064))

## What people warn about

- Image search getting worse over time (2 comments): "Google doesn't care about image search and actively makes it worse often" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47124413)) "their image search is useless for me however" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45842012))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Google Search](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-search.md): 315 recommend
- [Yandex Search](https://hackerapproved.com/p/yandex.md): 79 recommend
- [Marginalia Search](https://hackerapproved.com/p/marginalia-search.md): 50 recommend
- [Bing](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bing.md): 33 recommend
- [Ecosia](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ecosia.md): 24 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://images.google.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Google Image Search", https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-image-search/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).