Perhaps you should not be surprised if in various searches on the web, you find an image of yours that has been posted on a website; If you did not give authorization for it to be used in such a way then you could start make a copyright claim Although, if you think that this is going to help you be more popular, then you should leave things as they are.
Unfortunately, there are a certain number of unscrupulous users who could be taking our photographs (perhaps published on Facebook) to use them improperly, something for which we would have to complain. If you like clear up doubts about any of the photographs you have, you could use any of the “online reverse image search tools” to find out.
What are online reverse image search tools?
The term is actually not completely new, since you could have used it at any time within Google. If you go to its search engine, you will see that from there you are offered the possibility of searching on the web or through images, this last characteristic being the one that practically defines the term that we mentioned above.
1. Google Images
Surely if you know this characteristic, it would not hurt to mention it briefly and lightly. All you have to do is go to Google.com and then select the tab at the top that says "images."
Once there you will have the possibility to choose the camera, use the URL of an image or simply select anyone you have on your computer to Drag it to this area. You will immediately have a few results, most of which are similar, although some of them could give away the website that may be using your photographs.
2.TinEye
This is another of the most popular online services that exist to try to find similar or same images to ours. The method of "TinEye» works identically to what we mentioned above with the “images on Google” area.
The service is free and offers you the possibility of installing its respective plugin for Google Chrome.
3. MyPicGuard
Unlike the alternatives we mentioned above, with "MyPicGuard" you will have to open a free account to be able to use its services. The same initially gives you 100 credits so that you can use them in each of your searches. Each of them will cost you one credit so you should try to be austere, creative and intelligent when using them.
You can order the analysis of a photograph saved on your computer to be carried out and the task to be carried out once a day, twice a week, once a month or any other that you want as long as you have credits to use; Since this application requires you to register, you will have to provide an email, where you will receive notifications about the results of your exploration on the web.
4.Yandex Images
Yandex Pictures It is also a search engine that uses the same system as what we mentioned above with the other alternatives. According to its developers, this is a more effective task when it comes to obtaining good results, since here a better developed algorithm from Google is used (according to the Russian developer, Google only guesses).
The results will show the different sizes of the images, the similarities that exist with the one we have tested and the location where each of them is located.
5. Image Raider
interface Image Raider It is much simpler than the previous alternatives. Here there are only two options to be able to search for any of the images that are very similar to yours.
You can choose the button to import the photograph from your personal computer or use a URL address if you have said image on a website. This reverse image search engine would rely on what Google, Bing and Yandex offer.