Reversed image search from a computer
First, start by questioning search engines to see if they find another occurrence of this photo. Finding the trace of the first publication can help give its right context. Is this “old” photo presented as recent? Knowing the date of its first publication will help you know this. There are many search software or engines that allow you to make an inverted image search:
Yandex: Practical on a smartphone and efficient to find similar illustrations.
Google Images: It allows you to find identical or similar photos, it recognizes texts in an image and combines keywords with the desired image.
Google Lens: possible to download from your smartphone or right click in the Google Chrome browser. All you have to do is point the camera directly to the photo to search.
Microsoft Being: selects part of the image to be sought.
Tin Eye: Website designed especially for the search for inverted images.
Baidu: search engine that can look for text or illustrations.
How to do it from a laptop?
1️⃣ Download a photo in Google Image
2️⃣ Google Lens gives different results of the images that can get closer to yours
3️⃣ Click on "See image source". From there, visually similar images are displayed and then drop down to the bottom of the page to access the "Pages containing identical images" tab. Above all, do not hesitate to look at a lot of pages and not be satisfied with the results of the first.
In addition to all this, it may be relevant to download the Invid-We Verify extension via Google Chrome or Firefox. This will make it possible to do several research at once to modify an image.
1️⃣ Open the plug-in
2️⃣ Go to the "Key Images" tab
3️⃣ Enter the URL or insert the video file
4️⃣ Click on the image will generate a reverse image search
Reversed image search from a mobile phone:
1️⃣ Go on: images.google.com
2️⃣ Click on the three points at the top right to access the "Computer version" tab
3️⃣ Load the desired image and results will appear
You now have all the cards in hand to carry out an inverted image search. These techniques can be very useful to identify the origin of an image, the date and the conditions under which it was taken. The verification of the information also involves the precise study of the images and photos disseminated.
