


Their authority has been TinEye is a reverse image search engine that allows you to search by. These perform a reverse image search when you right-click an online image and select "search with this image" or something similar. TinEye Reverse is a Google Chrome extension created by. I generally use the browser extensions for TinEye and Google. TinEye is ever-expanding its database index. With a bit of experiment, some combination of TinEye and Google Image Search should meet most of your needs. The reverse image search platform that takes the cake with image numbers, offering over 41.9 billion images. Handled with care, this could be a money-saver. It's very useful to be able to search for images that are "labelled for reuse with modification" or "labelled for non-commercial reuse" or whatever. The key features are search by type (Face, Photo, Line drawing etc) and search by usage rights. You can then click Paste image URL (if the image you want to look for is. However, Google does some very good things that TinEye doesn't. To run a reverse image search, you need to click on the camera icon on the right-hand side of the search box. As with text searches, you get options such as "Past week" and "Custom range", but these are tedious to use, and don't seem very reliable. TinEye is also good at finding versions of images that haven't had logos added, which is another step closer to the original. Sometimes you find your searched-for picture is a small part of a larger image, which is very useful: you can switch to searching for the whole thing. TinEye's results often show a variety of closely related images, because some versions have been edited or adapted.

I'm often trying to find the oldest version posted, to authenticate a particular photograph. You can order TinEye's results by newest first or oldest first, by size, by the best match, or by the most changed. Google Image Search generally has a bigger, fresher database, though it doesn't find all the images that TinEye knows about.īasically, TineEye has the smart guys while Google has the web crawlers. I use both, because they are different enough to complement one another. But if you're new to reverse image searching, I suggest you start with TinEye and Google.
