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by woodall 5683 days ago
After clicking around, I still have no idea what your app does.
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image search that works.

Look for something on Google image search and typically the same image will show up in 25% of the first page of results and precision can be anywhere between 10-75%.

Image search is still so bad today that people don't even believe it can be made better. Defined in a certain narrow way, the Ookaboo API is > 99% accurate, however, there are common cases (categorizable) where its view of reality doesn't match other people's. For instance, Ookaboo might show you a picture of a person that is associated with a place instead of the place itself, or it might show you a picture of something that an artist made rather than show you a picture of the artist. We've got answers to that under development