Comments on: Google’s reverse image search is an extremely useful tool for finding the origin of images or photos

By: phone detective review

phone detective review — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 04:03:20 +0000

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By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:58:07 +0000

On the downside, this service is going to somewhat limit Ashraf’s ability to post mystery pictures where he doesn’t know what it is, where it is, or why it is.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:20:57 +0000

@Jyo: Yeah, that's right, but I wonder how long that has been there? I am guessing not very long but I could be wrong. I am just guessing but I think Google probably learns from our searches with this service. and the more people that use it, the more results and the better the results will be. I think we should credit TinEye. If TinEye didn't come first, then would Google have this service yet?

By: J.L.

J.L. — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:43:56 +0000

You’re late again, but more people should know of this.

By: Jyo

Jyo — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:57:16 +0000

Why doesn’t Google make this feature more obvious? I too only thought tineye was capable of this. Good tip!

Edit: Actually, if you go to google images, and you click on the tiny camera icon inside the search bar, it’ll bring it up. Hidden indeed…

By: Jeanjean

Jeanjean — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:27:21 +0000

Thanks Eric & Ashraf. It is indeed a very good tip !

By: fermier

fermier — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:45:11 +0000

Apprec the tip. Have been using that TinEye and was happy with it, but not knowing there was something even better.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:47:11 +0000

Thanks Ashraf. I finally spotted the thanks Eric on the bottom right.
It does put TinEye to shame. It is also very useful for finding different sizes of the same image and finding the same image without a watermark if there is one.
Its recognition of similar images can also be quite amusing. Google’s “brain” works a little differently than ours apparently. Do a reverse search on the jogging lions picture of a few days ago to see what I mean. Below should be a direct link to those results.
http://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZitj0TIdjJY0rc99ss43GViLMLgIL1Dvqt1v0EB7cta51Hp-eP2XAhXv6hHBuvyBB3Uc3tVCjUNO3Lnyj2hgymP7tMlyvUXL6F-JENuX3xdrCLMR-OosPr87Ae7vHewge6efSdjTLsFJ3AN_1nAf69nbmfwXmrWq3QuoVyS2ha3YqTtUZ2hSYIvHwZQDKhXU1zGxJXel2d0XrVwy7WeaOow5s4FnBBhSfW2M0shGzkLbX9LwPdA_15D0oy6SpCctZJvXt8yirkysHt5WldKuHg6i5cpecqtHvvCXQY0MX3NiJP8b88aIugSk8apjdpQH29CSLJaSinYTQp2g-UflFWePZgwpgT30PkHponTBXGehTmn9KH_1Kg6RvkKWG9gipLhVenG5b_1hlDLcZJs5Raxdqn0KHBkMylU3DfyexezyGewCc8k8z_1c3DNLoyL7wmVoZr1fwu_18Wtg8Ikj3yRqo1HfglmhQjl2MTaMa-Nv224nuVCn4FkKJcNc5T2gqzw6gsgbzSlY4vl13cPWCP4ExeKcCjmdqTmGpgHiAQmzbmxVEUm-35Vo_1W2Fq-MERWKDzSisXFp_1CU-7Zjlfd6i_12ougVe5J73kqIUb5yF7yf1howvTHwOgEnM8v925D8jvmZlUJ0Vn-ggA2DdGmGCVU0i8cZlfWM_1bIdy4PhO7hfBw5OFm9KPgC1JF3juEwd7yOWTogqj1t3e8Uimtk4JUUXTtMiA_1TpGloRo-ZHRPk1_1WiLAAZwNrtQLezgIHNMUybStDQq_1aK_1Q7dsS0odRHZyyF7sI6pzevBUAiViXAVRZLKucEGmpPdkh3NJB7i_1WnX53xNDKRSqlHfKGEgcVAfvG4ZarO-wgiZQ6UM-Ju_1kCUtaaCcwH-XhVizXEievAY2cOTrXb5xw3klUEkCbd0FCi1xnj7_1UT3_1qlfHOZYSdJLszYnaY6kcWe8Na8YV3q1RWNgC0hBebyGfLlN2fr4UsupRD3kVcb9ZA-UV61K9Quj5F70PZrAe9QG6j3TMMNaqyQ8WawB5DZBGPxz02JFG1DGPuWaL0j3gwx7QeKHPe_1mO2TfpWZ51J2HKW2O8yoBywj8FvOe3jvoYMFEObAwFZKNWjvFMMOwGhW5qNeO5oC0o2tAY1Q44KoVhu0MN0mb0H0QWAaROtM3ACEZEoLFt86kjREiUtkJHl4KS6epAcyfvqQpVgi4mpF6w341gSLDrf3cVuJRFmko9eIXDMMNTlazdL8F_1PT3Do499TtVBVuSQMLXTV4l2AMrThwHSxLBKUOm-A0h3s5cuw3TXZtqA9S4yC8G2dezQ&num=10&hl=en&safe=off&bih=871&biw=1825
And I must give credit to where I found out about this wonderul service. It came as a built in right click context menu item in the browser ChromePlus, now called CoolNovo. This is basically Google Chrome with some really nice additional features and none of the phone home junk.
Speaking of hidden parts of Google image search, for those of you on slow connections the following link will force Google Images to stay in the old style 20 results per page instead of the bandwidth intensive endless scrolling mode it now defaults to.
http://images.google.com/images?source=hp&q=%s&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&sout=1&biw=1920&bih=842