[mytherin]

Feature were stripped from Google Image Search because of a lawsuit [1]. Yandex, Bing and others can offer a better image search because they are not big/important enough to sue in the US search engine market. If Google were to be dethroned, the company that would take over its current dominant position would also be sued and would likely have to make the same changes.

[1] https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2020/01/what-happened-to-googl...

[gs17]

The changes from the lawsuit, AFAIK (and the article seems to agree) were removing "view image" and "search by image" from results. Google still had decent reverse image search back then, but now it might as well just throw your input image into Stable Diffusion.

[whywhywhywhy]

Although true I don’t consider “lawsuit” an excuse and think the problem goes deeper to Google employees focusing on ML problems for career clout not customer solutions