Search by image in Google and Yandex: upload an image or photo and find the image. (How does this work?)

Image search is an opportunity to find images on the Internet that best match the query you typed. Most search engines provide this opportunity, and it’s just great. But if you already have a picture and want to find its original or something similar, this is called reverse search.

Reverse search works great for desktop computer. Go to images.google.com, click on the camera icon and paste the URL of the image into the search bar, or download the image from hard drive your computer and Google immediately finds everything.

But what to do if you need to find the original picture, but you only have your phone at hand? You will not be able to do this using the method described above, because... There is no camera icon in the Chrome mobile browser, i.e. you won't be able to search for duplicate images using the standard Google app. Completely different services come to the rescue, which we will talk about now.

Search on iPhone

A simple and effective application for iPhone. There are several ways to select a picture, including downloading a file from your phone's gallery, entering a URL, or pasting it from the clipboard.

Before you upload a picture, you can change it. For example, you can lower the resolution, thereby reducing the size of the downloaded file and, accordingly, the amount of data transferred over the network. You can even crop to upload only a specific part of the photo.

After uploading the image, a page with search results will open. You can open found pages in Safari or Chrome, add them to your Reading List for later viewing, copy URLs to the clipboard, send them via email, and so on.

Reversee also has extensions for iOS, which can be used to launch the program from Photos, Safari, Chrome and any other application that supports image export.

The application can be downloaded from the App Store completely free of charge. When upgrading to the paid version, a number of additional functions, including the ability to search with several search engines at once (Google, Bing, Yandex).

It takes a picture from a camera, gallery or cloud storage and provides all possible information about this image and searches for identical or similar pictures on the network. If you have just arrived from Paris and want to know more about Eiffel Tower, feel free to upload the photo you took to Veracity and the application will give you a lot of links to pages with pictures and descriptions of one of the most famous Parisian attractions.

Search on Android

On Android, almost the same capabilities as Reversee for iOS are provided by the Search By Image app. In it you can also take a photo and search for similar ones; you can take an image from your photo gallery or from a message on WhatsApp, Facebook and VKontakte.

Search By Image copes with some tasks even better than Reversee. For example, with determining the originality of a photo or the date of creation of the file. Search By Image also searches by part of an image. This feature can be useful, for example, if you want to find the original photo of part of a collage.

The imported image can be cropped or rotated before searching. Three search engines are used (to choose from): Google, TinEye and Yandex.

You can copy the desired address from the search results, open it in a browser, or transfer it to another application.

Image Search

Image Search is a simple and intuitive application that uses the Google engine to search for similar images. Before searching for copies, you can trim off the desired part. You can search multiple images simultaneously and transfer them to other applications. IN latest updates Image Search has an improved user interface and several new features, including uploading to background with a notification when the download is complete.

Search on any phone with a browser

If you can’t find a suitable application for the mobile platform of your gadget and all you have is a browser for mobile devices, try the Reverse Photos service, optimized for smartphones.

Using this service, you can upload pictures and search for identical or similar images using the Google algorithm. The tool is compatible with all modern mobile web browsers, including Chrome, Safari and Firefox.

There is also an alternative use case Google search. To do this, follow these steps sequentially:

Launch a mobile browser on your smartphone.
Go to www.google.com/ncr.
Request in browser full version site.
Go to the "Pictures" tab.
Click on the camera icon.
Select required file and click the "Download" button.

After completing the steps described above, a window with search results will appear in front of you.

Hello dear readers. Today we continue the series of articles about social networks and searching for data in them. And today we will search for people by their profile avatars using interesting methods.

We are simply sure that you have at least once tried to find a person on the Internet using certain parameters. To do this you probably used:

residence address;
first and last name;
geolocation and so on.

But, there are situations when you have no information about the person you are interested in, except for his photograph. What to do in this case? We'll explain it to you.

How to find a person by photo on social networks right now

Recently, wandering through the vastness of the Internet, I asked myself one question: is it possible to find the person of interest just from one photo? You must agree, this is incredibly interesting. I recently wrote an article on a similar topic and I advise you to read it ""

Everyone understands that the more information about the person of interest that you intend to find at all costs, the greater the likelihood of a successful search. However, even in this case there are some nuances. After all, it is not a fact that the person you are interested in has posted true information about himself, in the same social networks.

There are services that, using developed artificial intelligence, search only one photo. These utilities instantly find people on Odnoklassniki, VKontakte, Facebook, and so on. In this case, a variety of factors in the photo are taken into account - from facial expressions to geolocation marks and the background.

Such utilities can also find people similar to famous artists that you are simply crazy about.

One can note one of the most popular service for searching people, which is called FindFace .

Important! This search engine is interesting because it searches completely free of charge, and is also very effective. With this program you can find a complete stranger using just one photo.

This is quite easy to do. The first thing you need is to register on the official FindFace website. This is quite easy and quick to do.
Then you need to upload a photo of the person you are interested in to the service.

As you can see, this is not difficult to do either. You just need to drag the photo into specific field, after which the artificial intelligence will begin processing the image.
The final stage is to wait for the search results. The program will display the profile of the person you are interested in.

How to find a person by photo on social networks, in particular VKontakte? Very simple. The search itself is located in the news feed. It is labeled "Photos". If for some reason you do not have this tab, you need to enable it by clicking on the plus sign.

Please note that at the bottom there is “Search by Photos”, this is what you need.

Let's take a closer look at the features of this program, when the image has absolutely no designations? In fact, this is not necessary. The search engine identifies the text on photos and the description under the photo, which are entered when editing it.

Utility parameters

On at the moment There are several of them, we will take a closer look at all the parameters and determine the principle of their operation.

Built-in photo filters

Everyone knows that the VKontakte editor provides its own photo filters. Almost all users use them, as it significantly improves picture quality. It is by them that you can search for a person in a photograph. To do this, you need to enter filter: luna in the “Search by photos” field. After these steps, the search engine will search by the applied photo filter, which is called Luna.

Geolocation

This option allows you to find photos of interest by location. So, in the photograph we see that the person we are interested in was photographed, for example, on the Champs Elysees. First you need to find out the coordinates of this place. Let's open the map, which is located on VKontakte.

Go to the news feed and select the “Search” tab. Next, you need to click on the search “Geolocation”

We select exactly the place that interests us and click “Search by records nearby.” The search will display the coordinates that need to be copied into the field for searching by photo. As a result, you will receive all the photographs of people who took pictures on the Champs-Elysees.

Similar photos

This is the most interesting option, which provides the ability to search for similar photos. All you need to do is copy the link of the image you are interested in. We copy it into the photo search and get results of all very similar images. There are also opportunities in interesting ways.

That's probably all. Good luck with your search, you will certainly succeed. I hope the material was useful. Don't forget to subscribe to the blog newsletter and repost. All the best -))).

Sincerely, Galiulin Ruslan.

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Until recently, search engines could only search by words. No, of course, there were such, but until a certain period they operated only with the words that the user entered in the search bar.

How does searching by uploaded images differ from regular search?

The search engine did not understand what exactly was shown in the photos that it returned in the results, but was only guided by the words that appeared in the text next to this image (on the pages of the sites where it found them) or that were written in its attributes. In fact, for the search engine, the picture was a “black box”, which he could judge only by indirect signs (its description).

As a result, the query “blue chicken” could show “pink elephants”. Of course, such errors in photo searches were corrected manually (so-called), but this was done only for the most frequently entered queries. And that's not the main thing.

The important thing is that it was impossible show the search engine an image of poor quality, so that he would find you the original in high resolution or show him a photo of a person (read), and he would tell you that this is such and such an artist, poet, musician or just a person described on at least one page on the Internet .

Sometimes a photo may be one of many in a series (photo report, photo instruction, different angles) and you may want to find all the other images from the same series to understand the essence. How to do this? What words should you type into the search bar? Here's another example. You saw a sofa in a photo and wanted to know where exactly the same one was sold and at what price.

A difficult task, or even unsolvable (to a first approximation), if the query is entered in words. Here you need to somehow upload the picture to the search engine and the latter must understand what exactly is depicted on it and try to give you answers to all the questions posed just above.

Until recently, image search could not do this, but now it can. Search by sample image(photos or any other image) are now supported by both Google and Yandex. Moreover, the latter learned to do this only quite recently, but nevertheless learned.

If you try to dive into the full depth of the principles of this action, then most of us are unlikely to find it interesting. In this regard, I really liked the explanation of the Yandex representative.

The picture is divided into small fragments, which can be called virtual words. Well, then the process follows the same logic as a regular search. The same set of visual words is searched, and the closer it is to the user's uploaded image, the higher it will appear in the search results.

How does Google photo search work?

Let's look at all this using the examples of Yandex and Google. Let's start with the largest search engine in the world. In order to get into the holy of holies, you can click on the “Pictures” button on the regular search page, or you can immediately:

Click on the camera icon located in the right area of the Google search bar. You are given two options to upload the desired picture or photo to the search- indicate its address (it can be copied by right-clicking on the photo and selecting the “copy image URL” option, or something similar in meaning) on the Internet or upload it from your computer.

In the example shown, I simply indicated the URL of the image that I found on the official Wikipedia website ().

In the search results I got this picture:

Google told me that the photo shows Albert Einstein in his youth, and also suggested that I look at the same image, but in a larger or smaller size. You can also look at similar pictures, and under them you can see the web pages where this graphic file takes place.

In the search bar, you can enter clarifying words, for example, if you want to find out about all the vicissitudes of this person’s fate, then enter the word “biography”. As a result, pages will be found on which the search found the picture you uploaded and on which there is a biography of the person depicted in it.

I mentioned two main ways to upload an image to Google search - provide a link to the graphic file or upload it from your computer. But there is also a third way to activate this action.

If you are V Google Chrome , then simply move your mouse to the picture or photograph on the page that interests you for one reason or another (for example, you want to find out whether your virtual friend posted a true photo on VKontakte or is it some kind of famous person imprinted).

As a result, a context menu will appear and you will need to select “Find this image in Google” from it. After this, you will find yourself in the already familiar Google image search window with all the collected information about your friend’s photo.

Search by image files in Yandex

Quite recently, the leader of the RuNet search market acquired a similar tool. New technology they called it "Computer Vision" and gave it the code name "Siberia". In this case, the picture is divided into visual words (areas of contrast change, borders, etc.) and the entire database available in Yandex is searched for the presence of this set of visual words in other images.

And only then those in which these visual words are in the same order as in the original uploaded picture are selected. In practice, this action looks very similar to Google - in the right search area for photos from Yandex the camera icon is located, which you will need to click to download the graphic file.

Although, if you have the URL of the desired image, you can paste it directly into the graphical search bar and click on the “Find” button, as shown in the previous screenshot.

You can find out the URL address of an image on a web page by right-clicking on it and selecting the context menu item “Copy image address” or similar (in different browsers different names are used).

If you need to upload a picture to the search from your computer, then click on the camera icon.

The search results will look something like this:

As you can see, from them you can also quite easily understand that the photo shows the great Einstein, but on Google I somehow liked the design of the results more. It is possible that Yandex will still need to work on this. Those found can also be sorted by size and type.

In general, in most cases the services described should be enough for you, but it is possible that Tinay you will need it someday. Here, again, you are offered a choice of two ways to download a sample image - by entering the URL address or directly from your computer.

This service is good for searching similar photos or the individual components from which it was assembled. As you can see from the screenshot below, Tinay found the sources of the original images that made up the sample.

Chinese search engine Taobao has the ability to search for products based on the photo you uploaded. As a result, you will not only receive the addresses of those online stores where you can buy it, but you will also be able to choose the most profitable offer for you.

True, to work with it you need to know Chinese. However, there are several sites that allow you to search for products by photo through the Taobao database, but at the same time they have a Russian-language interface and the search results are also translated into Russian.

The results of searching for a product by photo look like this:

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Google image search

To search by image using the Google search engine, you need to go to images.google.ru. Next, click on the camera image “Search by image”.

In the “Search by Image” window you will need to provide a link to the image, or upload a file from your computer.

In the first case, in the “Specify link” tab you need to enter the URL address of the image. You can get the address in this way: right-click on the image on the site, and in the context menu select the item: “Copy link to image”, “Copy URL of image” (the context menu items differ in different browsers, but I think the meaning of the action is clear) .

In the second case, you need to upload the image from your computer. Click the Upload File tab and then select an image from your computer.

In the third case, you can simply drag the image into the “Search by Image” window.

After adding an image, click on the “Search by Image” button.

Based on the search results, you will see the found image, other image size options (if there are other sizes), similar images, pages with matching images.

This way you will select the desired image option.

Search by image Yandex

Using Yandex technology, images that completely match the original picture, or similar images, will be found. Go to the page yandex.ru/images, and then click on the camera image.

The Yandex Images service will search for images on the Internet. As a result, you will see that you have found: the original picture, this picture in other sizes, similar pictures, sites where the picture is found.

Now you can choose suitable option images for future reference.

Search by images TinEye.com

The online service TinEye com has a very large database of images (millions of pictures on the Internet are indexed).

Log on to www.tineye.com to search for an image.

In the “Upload or enter image URL” field, enter the address of the image on the Internet, or click on the button with the arrow located next to the search field to upload the image from your computer.

Conclusions of the article

To search by images on the Internet, you can use: the Google Images service in the Google search engine, the Yandex Images service in the Yandex search engine, the TinEye image search service. After downloading an image, or entering its URL from the Internet, search engines will show you all found images that are similar to the original picture.

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Have you ever found yourself searching for an old childhood friend, a former classmate, or a distant relative with whom you have long lost contact?

Sometimes it happens quite quickly. But what to do if a person has changed his last name, or you don’t remember it? For example, you only have a photo of a person in family album How to find a person from a photo?

Today I’ll tell you about such a fairly effective search for people as image search.

Many people are looking for their acquaintances, friends, and relatives. It happens that when searching they only have one photo. It turns out that there are several interesting ways to find people on the Internet.

In this article I will try to list all the methods and tell you how to find a person from a photo.

Before starting your search, prepare a photograph. The photo must clearly show facial features. If you have several photos of a person, then use the highest quality photo to search.

To increase the likelihood of a successful search, you need to use everything possible ways and data about the person.

In addition to photographs, it is advisable to know the person’s last name, first name, place of residence, height, age.

How to find a person from a photograph in the TV program “Wait for Me”

First, try using the most popular search method - the “Wait for Me” program website. You can also send them a letter indicating all the information you know about the person. Be sure to include a photo.

On the official website of this program (poisk.vid.ru) you can check if anyone is looking for you. To do this, send a request indicating your personal information. All similar requests will be displayed to you.

How to find a person by photo on social networks

There is another interesting way searching for friends and relatives is a search through social networks.

VKontakte;
Classmates;
Instagram;
Facebook;
My world.

First of all, try to find the person through people search. Perhaps he is registered on this social network under his own name. If your search is unsuccessful, continue to the next steps.

Create an entry in which you tell in detail about the person you are looking for, your relationship with him, and the history of your acquaintance. Don't forget to attach a photo.

Google images

You can find people using Google service. Go to the Google Images search page (images.google.ru). Click the camera icon in the search bar.

You will be offered a choice:

Upload a photo from your computer;
Insert a link to a photo uploaded on the Internet into the box;
Just drag an image onto this page from any folder.

Select a picture by clicking on it, you will be taken to the site or service where it is posted. This could be social networks with the account of the wanted person.

City Forum

The city forum can help you in your search. This is especially true if you know exactly in which city the person you are looking for lives.

Write your problem in as much detail as possible, show a photo of the wanted person you are looking for, that is, attach a file with a photo.

Perhaps you will be lucky and in the near future you will find out the exact location of the comrade you are looking for.

tineye.com

This service is similar to Google. First, you need to copy the link to your image uploaded on social networks or to any other file storage.

After going to the site, you need to paste the copied link to the image into a special window. The service will give you all similar photographs available on the Internet and a link to their source.

But the site's data is rarely updated, and tineye's search only looks for exact matches, making the search much more difficult.

By the way, that's why I use the tineye.com service to check. This service finds all exact matches with the picture, thereby showing whether it is unique or not.

Do you know the importance of unique content on a blog? As important as audio and video material is, it is no less important. Be sure to read about the uniqueness of the content, articles on my blog, very necessary, useful topics.

Search via Yandex

You can try to find it from the photo on Yandex. Yandex will find all images similar to the photo you attached.

To search, you need to upload a photo to the Yandex photo service (fotki.yandex.ru). Then open the album, hover your mouse over the photo, right-click on the picture, select “Search for similar images in Yandex.”

Yandex will display all sites that have similar photos. This compares favorably with tineye, which only looks for exact matches. Open each site to see who has uploaded the same photos.

Paid search services

In addition to all the free search methods listed above, there are also paid search services, such as:

Shutterstock is a service in Russian and has a huge database of photographs;
Getty Image – this service has navigation, various sections and hash tags;
Facesaerch – convenient service, allowing you to search only the data you need.

When searching for friends, be careful. There are many sites on the World Wide Web created by scammers. Before you search for a friend or relative, make sure that the site you are searching on is verified and reliable.

When you search by photo, try to use all the methods described in this article at once. This will maximize your chances of finding the person you need! Good luck in your search.

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