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Allow users to choose "search select URL" or "search select image" method depending on the site #187

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ericpa06 opened this issue Apr 16, 2022 · 1 comment

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ericpa06 commented Apr 16, 2022

First of all, thank you very much for your amazing extension. Second, I don't know how to explain this in a short manner, so I will be a little lengthy on my explanation:
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Search engines can't access data on sites that require some login or authentication or whatever (such as a site behind a hard paywall or something), therefore obviously search engines aren't able to do reverse search on those sites. If you are accessing some site behind a hard paywall, and you try to reverse search some image on Google, you just end up with a result like this, saying that that image isn't publicly available.

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"Search by Image" deals with this by offering an option that automatically downloads the image and then uploads it on that given search engine you are using it. The thing is that this is slightly slower than straight out submitting the URLs to that given search engine, it takes a few seconds more, and if you are dealing with a bigger image and have a bad internet connection, it may take sometime, it is not as fast as directly submitting the URL to the search engine .

So I was wondering, it would be interesting if you could choose what sites you want to use each search method. Something like "the default action I choose is "search select URL" (because in most sites I use that option will work just fine), but for these sites here, which are behind a paywall, I want the extension to use the "search select Image" mode, which is slightly slower, but it will work no matter what, even if Google/Yandex/Bing/etc can't access that site.

Just a humble suggestion. Again, thank you very much for your extension.

@ericpa06 ericpa06 changed the title Allow users to choose "search select image" or "search select URL" method depending on the site Allow users to choose "search select URL" or "search select image" method depending on the site Apr 16, 2022
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ericpa06 commented Apr 20, 2022

Just one thing I was thinking : a possible approach could be some option like "try search by URL" first as a rule, if that URL can't be accessible by search engines cause is behind some paywall, then upload the image (as well as adding that particular domain on a list, so that previous reverse searches from that given domain would already automatically default to the desired action, there is to say, to automatically default to "search image" mode). Something like this maybe:

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