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Let's start with the fact that until recently, search engines could not effectively search the Internet for images that interest you. The entire search process took place only according to the words that we entered in the search. It was very difficult! After all, the desired image directly depended on its description, which could appear in the text next to the image on various sites, as well as on the name of the picture.

For example:

You are looking for paintings by the famous artist Pablo Picasso. Yes, the search engine will find his paintings for you, but next to them he could find an image that a child drew, and his parent jokingly signed it: “Pablo Picasso’s greatest work!”

Of course, maybe you are a professional and can easily distinguish the original from a child’s painting, but not everyone can do it.

But we are still growing and developing, and the same can be said about search engines. Today there are only a few services that you can give preference to. The top three are naturally Yandex and Google, and in third place is the lesser-known TinEye. By the way, Bing and Rambler still search for pictures by words. Let's start the review.

Here Google offers additional search criteria by size, similar images, and sites where your searched image may be located.

Search by image in I'm index

Method No. 1

To search by image in Yandex, follow the link yandex.ru/images or go to the Yandex main page and click on “Pictures”. Then click on the camera icon.

Like Google, there are three options for uploading an image for search:

1. Enter the address of the image, that is, the URL.
2. Upload a file from your computer.
3. Drag the image directly into the search area.

Method number 2

This method is convenient for those who use the default Yandex browser. As with Google, just right-click on the image you want, then “Find this image in Yandex”.

Result

This is what Yandex gave us after searching for a photo:

Yandex, unlike Google, does not try to guess what exactly is shown in the photo; instead, it offers a convenient table with all possible sizes.

Search by photo in TinEye

And finally, the third image search service that tops our list is TinEye. To start your search, simply go to tineye.com and upload or drag the image you want into the search area.

For the test, we chose a photo, deliberately removing any mention of Jaguar from the title. As you can see in the screenshot below, TinEye did an excellent job. Found 61 results and even indicated the correct car name.

Which service to choose for image search?

The conclusion can be summed up very simply. During the experiment, we tested more than one image in various services. In our opinion, these three did a more than good job and it seems to us that it is best to use Google or Yandex, since the latter application is in English. If there is no language barrier, then you can safely use the one you like best. It's also worth noting that the above services are of course not perfect, so if you're looking for something specific, you can test all three. But remember that if they didn’t cope with your task, then no one else can cope. Next, we’ll look at how to search by image from your phone.

Search by image from your phone (Android, iPhone).

To find a photo, picture or any other image from your phone, you don’t need to make any effort. Everything is just as easy and simple as on a regular computer. The search can be carried out using a picture that you have on your smartphone or one that you found on the Internet.

So, let's say you are interested in the photo of the girl shown below and you would like. To do this, of course, you need to send it to a search in one of the Google or Yandex search engines.

Tap and hold on the photo until a pop-up menu appears.

Click on “Find this image on Google” and you will instantly be taken to a page with the results of what the search engine found. In the Yandex browser you can do exactly the same manipulation. If your picture or photo is on your smartphone, then to search you need to follow the same steps as on your computer (see the beginning of the article).

Search by image using mobile applications.

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Google Lens(Google Lens)(Android)(iOS)

A great app that works like artificial intelligence and can use your camera to determine what's in your lens. That is, in real time you can find out about almost everything, wherever you are. For example, while shopping, when choosing an item, use the Google Lens application and it will immediately display all similar or the same items in different stores, where you can choose an affordable price for yourself. If you don’t know the breed of the dog, please open Google Lens and find out the breed, etc.

Also, this application very conveniently scans various types of text, links, etc. This means that if, while at your desktop computer, you need to send a link to someone via messenger, then just point your smartphone’s camera at the desired link, click on it and you’re there You can copy it, send it, or simply go to it from your phone.

This application helps you find some products in stores. Let's say you liked something, you can immediately take a photo of this object, thing, etc. and the app will help you find a place to buy it.

Browser extensions for searching pictures, photos and images.

Sometimes you may encounter a situation that you need to find an exact image and would like to check in all services at once. Of course, it won’t take 2 hours, but you’ll still have to tinker. A service can help you with this, or rather a browser extension – PhotoTracker Lite. Works with browsers: Yandex, Chrome, Opera. There is another bonus: the application searches for images in the Bing search engine.

This way, you can use all four services at the same time to find the image you need. To get started, install the extension in your browser.

After installation, you will be able to configure the extension, which services to search in, as well as in which window to open the results page (background or active, to do this, click on the “settings” gear).

After setting up the extension, you can safely use it for its intended purpose. By right-clicking, as in Google and Yandex, you can see a new subsection “Search this image.” Click and the extension will redirect you to the results.

But that's not all, PhotoTracker Lite has another nice search feature. This is the “Quick Search Icon”, where all results will be loaded even faster (on and off in the extension settings).

After clicking on the search, you will see results in all selected (depending on settings) services.

It is worth noting that this extension copes with its task very well and can be very useful for those who are involved in photography, are directly involved in working with images, etc.

Watch a video on how to use the PhotoTracker Lite extension:

Despite all the shortcomings that can happen when using these services and applications, they are still the best that exist today.

How to find a person without knowing their last name, first name, city, age? There are ONLY PHOTO. No, we will not use intelligence technology. There are online services that will easily allow anyone to do this for free. There can be many applications for this: finding random passers-by, love at first sight, old friends, determining the identity of a criminal, finding doubles, contacting the owner of lost documents.

Preparing the photo

The search accuracy will be higher if you prepare a photograph. Trim off excess, remove strangers, position your face straight. This can be done using any photo editor.

The simplest option on Windows is standard Paint.

As an example, let's take a photo of Mr. Bean from the FaceApp application. We want to find a woman like Mr. Bean.

1. 1. Launch Paint through Start - All Programs - Accessories, or find it through a search in Start.

1. 1. Open the photo. File - open. Or drag the file into the program window.

1. 1. Select the “Select” tool. We outline the face we will be looking for. Then press the crop button.

1. 1. We save the photo in jpg or png format: File - save as...

If the face is positioned unevenly, we additionally use the Rotate tool. Standard Paint can only rotate a photo by 90°.

VKontakte profile search

The FindFace service can still search for people from VKontakte.

1. 1. We go to the website https://findface.ru/ and click “Find identical ones”.

1. 1. To search, log into the site through your VKontakte account. If it is not there, register a new account on vk.com. The service will request access to your account, allow it.
   2. Upload the photo to the service and wait for the search to complete. According to the developers, the search accuracy is 70%.

The free account allows for 30 photo searches and 5 views of found profiles. If you need more, you will have to pay for a Premium account for 149 or 459 rubles per month. If you are going to constantly look for people, it is more profitable to pay for a year - there will be a discount. You can also get a free monthly premium by inviting 10 friends.

To increase the accuracy of your search, specify your age, city, and relationship status on VKontakte. Please be aware that many people have the wrong ages listed.

The most similar faces are at the top of the list. You can go to the VKontakte page, add a person to your likes list, or chat with him through the FindFace mobile application (for Android). Using the mobile application, you can take photos and immediately determine your identity. Imagine the surprise of a stranger when you guess his name, favorite movies, music. A good reason to get to know each other

A few examples:
The girl was taking photos for documents and forgot the flash drive in the photo studio:


The girl met a guy on the bus, but was afraid to approach:


We find a person using a photo from a passing bus:


“Girl, has anyone ever told you that you look like Vin Diesel?”

Search the entire Internet

If a person does not have a profile on VKontakte, let's try to find him through a search by image:

• • Search by image from Google https://www.google.ru/imghp?hl=ru&tab=wi.

• • Search by image from Yandex https://yandex.ru/images/.

Not all users know that digital photographs can be marked with shooting coordinates - geographic latitude and longitude. This data is recorded in the so-called EXIF ​​- a special extension of a digital image, where a lot of information is entered: date and time of shooting, camera model, exposure, ISO, and so on and so forth. If the camera (phone) is equipped with a GPS chip, then GPS coordinates can also be entered into this EXIF ​​- this is called a “geotag”. > This opportunity can be very convenient, especially when it comes to photographing all kinds of travel: instead of answering questions from the series “Where is this? Where is this? Where is this beautiful place?”, you simply say what’s there Each photo has coordinates - take it and see who needs it. Many viewing programs can display coordinate values ​​in photos - for example, ACDSee Photo Manager, in which you can enable viewing of all EXIF ​​data.

GPS coordinates in ACDSee

However, just coordinates as such say little. It would be much more convenient to be able to view the shooting location if necessary - for example, in the same Google maps. It would be quite obvious. Well, no problem! Google's free Picasa program can do similar things. Install it and launch it.

The program will scan the images on your computer and display them as thumbnails. On those photos that have a geotag, Picasa will show a special red icon - like a position mark on Google maps.

Geotagged photos

If you click on the same icon from the bottom toolbar, Picasa will display a map panel, where it will show the coordinates of all the photos in the folder or the coordinates of the selected photo.

Photo and map

Moreover, on the map you can also select the “satellite” mode and other modes supported by Google maps.

You can also, of course, change the display scale.

Changing the scale and turning on the satellite image

Using this program, you can also manually add geotags to already taken photographs - select the desired area on the map, and then add the corresponding geotag to the selected images. There are quite a few cameras with built-in GPS, but if you don’t have one, it hardly makes sense to buy something like that just because of geotags. Considering the growing popularity of smartphones with cameras, which can already produce quite decent images in quality, the task of geotagging is solved simply - as a rule, if a smartphone is equipped with a GPS module, then its camera can add these geotags. Here, for example, are the iPhone settings - enabling geotagging in the camera.

Enabling geotagging in camera

Here's how to enable a geotag on an Android smartphone.

Popular search engines Google and Yandex are famous for such an option as image search. Human minds have made it possible to use photography to search for people, their pages on social networks, to look for an image with the same characteristics or with a predominance of a specific color. But, another interesting opportunity that the developers presented to consumers is to search for the place where the photo was taken using Google and Yandex photos. So, let's figure out how to find the place where the photo was taken using the Google search engine, and whether it is possible.

In 2016, Google introduced the latest development of its think tank - the ability to find out the exact location of a person from a picture.

But first things first.

First, you need to upload a photo to Google. For this:

But this method had one big drawback. The image search engine easily identified world-famous places. For example, Niagara Falls, or the Eiffel Tower in Paris, or the pyramids of Egypt. But there were many problems regarding the area, which was not popular. When uploading a photo of your street, you shouldn’t even expect approximate information about the location.

Progress, as we know, does not stand still, and the company’s specialists have improved their search engine by actively developing a special network called PlaNet.

It will become a real assistant in finding the area shown in the photograph. In order to search as accurately as possible, the electronic search system divided the land surface into 26,000 conventional zones, which have some different features and characteristics that make it possible to identify a place, country, or at least a continent.

This system is particularly attentive, analyzing and comparing the smallest details and details.

Roads and the direction of movement on them, the nature of the dishes on the dinner table, architectural landmarks and flora, animals - all these are little things from which PlaNet draws conclusions and, after making comparisons, produces a result about the intended location in the photo. It’s hard to imagine, but during the next testing of the system with the game “Geoguessr”, she was asked to compete with professional travelers.

Opponents in the game were asked to find out the area using a Google Street photo. The computer system performed twice as well as humans.

Another development of computer geniuses from Canada is the TinEye system, which works on a similar principle.

The company's website is on the path of development, and the image database that is necessary for high-quality search is becoming larger every day.

With the Yandex search engine, things are a little different. The developers of the popular search engine claim that they are preparing a real breakthrough in image search, because the method that Yandex uses is fundamentally different from Google.

Today, the easiest way to determine a place on the map is geo-location. For example, if the author of the image decided not to hide the area shown in the photo and attached it to the map, the user needs to open the photo and click on the “On the map” icon under it.

Next, Yandex will open a map with the area marked in the photo. But, this method is not without its drawbacks, because initially the area may be indicated incorrectly or there may be no geo-location at all.

An alternative way to determine the location of objects in a photo is Yandex search. Needed for definition.

Let's look at how to find a photo on the Internet using a photograph.

Thanks to a few simple search techniques, you can always find the item of interest in the picture, the site or forum where it is posted.

The function of analyzing similar or identical images can be useful in completely different situations.

• Cases when you may need it: Fighting fakes
• Search for an unknown object. On the Internet you can often see articles or collections with images of interesting interior items, clothing and other categories. You can find the name of a previously unknown thing using;
• Checking your photos. With it, users can try to find several of their images. This way you can identify fakes on your page. As practice shows, scammers often simply copy pictures of social network users and use them as their own on Avito or OLX in order to deceive potential buyers;
• Names of famous people. This function is useful if you need to recognize an actor or singer.

Analysis of primary sources

Since the original source of the image is indexed by the system before the pages with the copied one, you can find it in a few clicks in Google and Yandex. In the results, you should pay attention not to the “Similar Photos” category, but to the “Mentions on the Internet” section.

Thanks to the ranking of pages in Google, you can easily find the real source of any picture, regardless of the social network or forum on which it is located.

Despite the huge number of banks and search engines for graphic content, we recommend choosing standard Google and Yandex for mentions. These systems implement the most accurate algorithms known today. In addition, they search for graphics not only in their own database, but also check all sites indexed in the system.

To use Google for this, just go to the site and follow a few simple steps:

• In the field, select the camera icon and provide a direct link to it or select it from the memory of your device;
• Click on "Search";

• The Google search result will show similar photos, mentions on other sites and forums (here you can find the original source). If it depicted a public person, in 99% of cases he will recognize the correct first and last name, and will also offer to read short information;

To narrow the scope, you can set additional parameters. To do this, in the displayed results, click on the “Tools” button. It is located at the top of the page, immediately below the text line.

Then select the period of mention of the picture on other sites and the preferred option (only similar images or a certain size of the graphic object).

The system from Yandex works similarly:

• Go to the page and click on the camera sign next to the text field;
• Drag and drop a picture for it or upload a file from your computer;
• Click on "Find".

The updated Yandex algorithm offers the user several options for what is shown in the desired picture.

Also, you will be able to access all possible extensions of the object. Like Google, users have the opportunity to look at sites where the image appears.

Search for an item by photo

On the World Wide Web we often come across images of interesting gadgets and objects, however, it is not always possible to remember the name of the object. To quickly find out the name of the item on it, just use the systems described above from Google or Yandex.

The image below shows a clear example of searching for an item using just one picture. Google immediately identified the topic to which the object belonged and found an online store where you can buy such a product. The exact name of the item is also indicated on the results page.

If you find an unknown object not in the form of a digital image, but in real life, you can simply photograph it and then carry out analysis on the image. When making it, try to choose a neutral background. This will make it easier for the system to identify the item.

RevIMG

RevIMG is a third-party resource that differs from standard search engines. This site also allows you to upload an image for it, however, the user can set the theme himself and crop it so that only the element of interest remains on it. This function will be useful when working with collages.