Find visually similar photos on your mobile phone and iPad with Reverse Image Search by Google
How to use: Just scroll down below you can see the Upload a file or drag and drop option to search the pictures you want to… Njoy!
What is a reverse image search?
When you do a reverse image search on Google, you place a photo, or a link to a photo, in the search bar instead of a text query. Google then finds websites featuring your image as well as related images.
Google Images also detects the subject of your photo and brings up other websites related to your image topic.
When to use Google reverse image search
It’s most helpful to search with an image on Google in the following cases:
- Find information about a photo. A reverse image search could bring up a website that includes a person’s name or information about a product.
- Uncover plagiarism. A reverse image search will bring up similar images. This can reveal whether an image was copied from someone else’s work.
- Find other similar images. If you want to find other photos connected to a specific image, a reverse search will populate related pictures.
How to do Reverse Image Search on your Mobile Phone
Google Reverse Image Search helps you quickly discover visually similar images from around the web. Upload a photograph from your desktop to Google Images and it will show you related images used on other websites and also different sizes of the same photo almost instantly.
What Is a Reverse Image Search used for?
Journalists can use the reverse search option to find the original source of an image or to know the approximate date when a picture was first published on the Internet. Photographers can use ‘search by image’ feature to know about other websites that are using their photographs without permission.
Image Search & Privacy
Reverse Search is useful for verifying the source of photographs, WhatsApp images, screenshots and Internet memes. Tinder and Facebook users have used Search by Image to research profile pictures of their potential dates, travellers use it for finding location of photos while matrimonial sites use reverse search to detect fake uploads.
All your uploaded images are hosted anonymously on the Google Cloud and cannot be discovered by other users. All photos are automatically deleted from cloud storage within few hours of uploading.