If you search a term on images.google.com, it shows all the images related to that term. Google Reverse
image search helps to find out the origin of the image you have. And also it gives you all similar photos in
different sizes suitable to you. You can either upload or paste the URL or drag an image from your
desktop. You can clarify your entire query by finding out animated GIFs, clip-art equivalents or color
scheme related to the original image.
Step-by- Step guidance
- First go to images.google.com
- Click the camera icon
- You can paste the URL or
- You can upload an image or
- You can drag an image from other windows.
Google Reverse Image Search is very much useful for Media persons (reporters, journalists and
photographers) to find out of a particular image details like origin and publishing date of that image. And
also they can find out whether somebody else is using their photos for other websites.
Lookup Reverse Image Search on your Mobile Device:
images.google.com feature is available in desktop only. But, nowadays lot of people is using mobile
device and tablets. On a very limited basis, Google has built a reverse image search on mobile devices
and tablets. The search bar will not show up the camera icon in the normal Google app. so, you can’t
upload an image for Reverse Image Search.
What will you do if anybody sends images via WhatsApp or FB?
First you’ve to transfer that image into desktop and then you’ve to search on images.google.com . This
will take lot or time.
What to do? Don’t worry. Options are here.
reverse.photos is an online tool available on your mobile phone, which allows you to do activity on
Reverse Image Search.
Guidance to get Reverse Image Search on Mobile phone:
- First go to reverse.photos
- Next click the “upload image” button.
- Then choose an image (which you want to perform) from you mobile photo gallery.
- And then click “Show Matching Images”
It provides you all required information from Google image database.
Another option is also available on mobile phone or tablet to perform Reverse Image Search.
Go to settings in Chrome browser on Android; select “Request Desktop Site”. Now you can open
images.google.com. Here you can see the Camera icon to upload an image easily.
In either way, you can upload any images from your photo gallery. You can also upload an image from
cloud storage services like iCloud, dropbox app, Google Drive or OneDrive app, which are all available on
your mobile devices itself.