On Friday, January 1, 2021 at 10:09:57 PM UTC+1, Melanie van Buren wrote:
On 01/01/2021 20:52, sobriquet wrote:

How come google isn't able to quickly point you to such quality
versions and comes up with countless pages of useless garbage
versions instead?

Are there any useful tools that actually work to find you a *good* quality version of an image instead of bringing you countless pages of
useless junk?
General algorithmic criteria and SEO at a guess. I'm not aware that
Google or any other search engine rates images by quality either
technically or critically. The same is true for movies. If you did, for
example, a search on "thrillers movies 2020" you'd find most of the ones
suggested are simply the most promoted. There may also be a backlash
from copyright owners and copyright licensees if the best quality images
always came out top.

Found with Tineye sorted by image size.

https://imgpile.com/i/8A8qh

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Melanie van Buren

Ah great, at least Tineye provides information about the actual filesize of the images.
That's probably most useful to quickly identify whether images have been artificially
bloated to high-resolution pixel soup.