To find out which websites are using your images, you can use reverse image search tools. This article from TipsMake will introduce you to two of the best online reverse image search tools currently available.
Imagine you see an interesting photo on Instagram or Facebook and you want to check if that image is already online. Or you might want to see if someone else has used your image in any posts.
In this case, you can perform a reverse image search. There are many tools on the market that allow reverse image searching. In this article, TipsMake will introduce you to two of the best online reverse image search tools currently available.
2 best online reverse image search tools
1. Google Image Search
Google has the largest online image indexes currently available compared to other websites. If you're looking for similar images , the best tool to start with is images.google.com.
Click on the small camera icon, then the screen will change so you can paste the image URL or upload the image you want to search.
To search for images online, simply right-click on the image and select "Copy Image Address / Copy Image URL " if using Chrome. On Edge, the only option for reverse image search is to save the image to your computer. Other browsers offer similar options; you can copy the URL or download the image.
Click on Search by Image , and the results window will appear as shown below:
By default, Google will try to make the best guess about the meaning of images, as you can see in the example image above. If you want to search for higher-quality images, simply click on " All sizes" in the " Find other sizes for this image" section .
The screen will display a list of the same image in all the different sizes that Google could find. If you go back to the main search page, you'll see a section in the bottom corner called " Pages that include matching images".
This section can help you find websites that are using the same image of yours on their site. Click on that link to see the exact website. This is a great solution for finding copyrighted images on websites.
If you frequently need to perform image searches, you can install the Search by Image extension on Google Chrome . Search by Image is a completely free extension from Google. All you need to do is right-click on any image and select " Search Google with this image" without having to copy the image URL or download and then re-upload the image.
Download and install the Search by Image extension here: Download Search by Image
2. TinEye
The second online reverse image search tool that TipsMake wants to introduce to you is called TinEye. TinEye has been on the market for quite some time, currently has over 25 billion images indexed, and focuses entirely on image searching.
When performing a search in TinEye, the search results displayed will be slightly different from how Google displays them. The example below searches for the Starbucks logo.
By default, TinEye displays search results sorted by Most Changed . This means the images in the search results will be the most different from the image you are looking for. If you want to see images that are similar to the image you are searching for, click the dropdown menu and select Best Match . If you want to see the highest quality image, select Biggest Image.
Additionally, you can click on the two options in the upper corner to display results from your gallery and display available images.
If you click on an image in the results, a small box will appear on the screen that you can use to compare it with your own image. Click the Switch button to toggle between images, displaying the most suitable one for you.
TinEye also has a Google Chrome extension that works quite similarly to Google, except this extension automatically loads the results as shown above.
Download and install the TinEye utility here: Download TinEye
Above, TipsMake has introduced you to two of the best online reverse image search tools currently available. Hopefully, this article will provide you with useful information in searching for copyrighted images.