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When performing image searches on Kagi, sometimes the results will include low quality screenshots captured within the virtual world Second Life. There are hundreds of thousands of Second Life screenshots hosted on flickr.com and will appear frequently in various image search queries.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Kagi image search "cat wearing a hat". Quick link
  2. Scroll past the good results to the bottom of the page.

I expected to see cats wearing hats and not "Second Life character wearing a hat next to a cat".

    I have also encountered a higher proportion of SL images in my Kagi search results than I would expect! (Though iirc the ones I saw were mostly “here is a model I made which you can purchase for use in Second Life.”)

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