Greetings, friends! Recently I was concerned with this question - how to check a photo for a match on the Internet? It’s no secret that search engines are very sensitive to unique texts. They are also partial to photographs, because they believe that copyright has not yet been abolished. After thinking about the topic, I realized that there are several ways to find out how “clean” a photo is and whether there are copies of it on the World Wide Web.
I want to say right away that truly unique photographs can only be found on specialized sites. They are called differently - photo banks, stocks, and so on. Only there there are copyright photographs that can be purchased or downloaded for free. It depends on how generous a particular photo bank is, how popular it is and how much the author of the photograph or picture values himself and his creativity.
What are the ways
After analyzing the situation, I realized that I could talk in detail and in detail about three different search methods. All of them are usually effective and give good results. Which one you choose is a personal matter for everyone. My task is to tell you about everything in as much detail as possible. So let's begin:
- search engines Google and Yandex;
- website tineye.com;
- Etxt Anti-plagiarism program.
Let's look at each point in more detail.
Search engines Google and Yandex
Very often Google in people's minds is a search engine. A little less often – mail. However, the service contains a lot of interesting things for both the average user and the webmaster. One of its “tricks” is precisely checking images for uniqueness. The algorithm for searching for matches is quite simple - the system simply monitors how often a particular image was found on the network according to a pattern specified by the user and produces approximate matches (among which the desired picture or photograph may be found).
To check the image for uniqueness, you will need to go to https://images.google.com. In the usual search bar on the right side you will see a small camera icon.
By clicking on it, you will be offered two options: provide a link to the image on the Internet or upload your own file. For example, we need to find out how unique the image from our hard drive is. By clicking on the second option “Upload file”, you will see the line “Select file”. When you click on it, a small dialog box will open in which you will be asked to find the photo on your computer and upload it for verification. Having selected the desired image, click “Open”. After this, the system will upload the picture and begin searching by photo. It usually takes a split second, and after that you will find out whether there are copies of that image on the network or whether it is unique.
It is important to take into account that Google may show very similar images, but this does not mean that your photo is not unique. You just need to carefully review the search results and everything will immediately become clear.
The situation is approximately the same with domestic ones. To search through it you need to go to https://yandex.ru/images/.
To check a picture, you need to drag it into the search bar. The system will think a little and display a similar picture or “say” that nothing was found.
As for me, Google works somewhat faster than Yandex, and its results, as a rule, are more accurate and better.
Website tineye.com
To search through this Internet resource, you need to go to the site https://tineye.com/. It is very simple and has an intuitive interface. Right in the center you will see a small line. On the left side of it there is a button for uploading a file to the site and subsequent verification, and on the right there is a search button. This is to check how many mentions of the desired image can be found if you enter the photo's URL.
The site differs from other similar ones in that it works very quickly online and is easy to learn. After loading the picture, it will show how many times it appears on the Internet. Interestingly, he almost never shows similar images. Although maybe I was just always lucky - I don’t know. Either unique or not, there are no other options.
Etxt Anti-plagiarism program
If you are too lazy to constantly open your browser, click links, and upload photos to the Internet, then you can use a free program for computers called Etxt Anti-Plagiarism. This is the official utility from the etxt.ru content exchange, which once specialized only in texts and translations, and is now trying itself as a photo bank. Any user can put up for sale their own photographs or drawn pictures, but all of them are checked for uniqueness within the system. We just need to check it, and not put it up for sale, so we download the program from the official website: https://www.etxt.biz/antiplagiat/ and install it.
After this, you need to go to the “Operations” menu and select “Image Uniqueness”. Next, you will see a button on the right side of the search bar. By clicking it, you will open a dialog box where you can find the original picture on your computer and download it for verification. The program works clearly and reliably. The only negative is that sometimes the search can take a little longer.
Etxt Anti-plagiarism is a program for checking the uniqueness of text and graphic information. In the search results, it displays the addresses of sites where fragments of matching text and the searched images were found.
As you can see, there is nothing complicated about checking images for uniqueness. But if you are sure that such pictures do not exist anywhere else, then you will definitely not be afraid of penalties from search engines or, even worse, lawsuits from copyright holders!
What means of searching for similar pictures or photos do you use? Be sure to write in the comments. Perhaps your method will be more effective.
PS: Interesting facts about searching for images in Yandex
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Recently, the number of fake pages on various social networks has gone beyond all reasonable limits. This especially applies to the site "". Fake means a fake or fake page. Since such profiles are usually created without the expenditure of effort and energy, it is not difficult to calculate them.
When evaluating a page, you should pay attention to the following signs:
- User's wall.
- Account age.
- Video files.
- Subscribers and friends.
- Photo and avatar.
To create the effect of a living user, Fakes often deliberately upload a large number of avatars and photos into an album, leave many posts on the wall and a large number of various reposts.
However, you should look not at the total quantity, but at the number. If all the information on the page (even if there is a lot of it) is posted within one or several days, then this is at least suspicious. Live accounts are always filled gradually.
The next sign is a large number of advertising posts on the wall. All reposts of photographs (or some of them) are of an advertising nature. Usually people duplicate such posts on their page only in rare cases.
So this is also one of the indicators of not a real account. Although if the wall or the entire page is completely empty, then this also makes you think.
The following can give away a fake account:
- A small number of notes on the wall.
- Lack of own notes.
- There are no reposts, likes or comments from friends.
Account age
Each VK user is assigned his own ID number upon registration. This way you can understand approximately when the page was created.
In some cases, the ID number is hidden.
No problem. We go to “Friends” and look at the address there.
If the number is one hundred million, it means that the page was created around 2010. If 190 million, then in 2012 and so on. 
If it was created quite recently, then there is also a chance that it is a fake.
Popular videos
There are two options: there is too little video and there is too much video.
Fake users usually don’t bother adding videos, so there are few of them. If, on the contrary, there are a lot of them, you should watch what exactly this video is.
Sometimes fake users deliberately add popular videos so that they get more clicks. Usually these are high-profile events (the latest political or simply scandalous incidents), entertaining content and erotica.
As for songs, there are also usually very few of them. At best, one or two dozen.
Subscribers and friends
The next stage is viewing friends. For fake accounts it looks like this.
But there are also fakes who carefully monitor their accounts and delete blocked pages. Here you should take a closer look at your friends themselves. If there are a lot of advertising profiles, then this should alert you.
It’s also worth looking at the number of subscribers.
Not always if a page has a lot of subscribers it is a fake. However, there will be little benefit from such communication. Over time, you too will find yourself among those pages. These people do this so that their accounts rank higher in searches.
The first thing you should pay attention to is the photo on your avatar. If this is a male profile, then usually it is an entrepreneur in a respectable suit or a handsome athletic man, naked to the waist. If it’s female, then the girl will most likely be in a swimsuit and express the most positive emotions. Seeing such friend requests, few people are able to resist looking at who it is.
When visiting the page, you should view the number of all photos. Usually fakes are too lazy to fill out pages in detail, so the number of photos will certainly not be more than 50, but rather even up to 20. True, this is not proof yet; perhaps the rest of the photos are simply hidden by privacy settings. If the majority of the photos do not show the face and only show the chest, back, etc., then 90% of the time we can say that it is a fake.
Usually, fakes steal photos from other users or copy photos of stars.
Usually, fakes steal photos from other users or copy photos of stars. The most popular photos are ones like the following.
How to find out if VKontakte is fake or not from a photo: summary
This is quite easy to check. You just need to point at the picture and press the right mouse button. Then click “Find image (Google). All web pages where this photo was posted will open. For reliability, you can check several photos. And if there are many matches with other Internet resources, then most likely it is a fake.
Usually, it takes about ten minutes to calculate a fake account. If you follow the rules described above, you will develop this skill quite quickly.
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Hello friends! We all know that website promotion primarily depends on unique content. Content should mean not only the text part, but also videos and images. Search robots also determine the relevance of an article to a particular query based on the loaded images. Therefore, it is important to know how.
You probably agree that hackneyed images are an eyesore for visitors. Novice webmasters mostly download them from other sites, add an entry and think that the image is unique. Many simply do not know how to check a picture for uniqueness, unlike services to check text for uniqueness.
How to check if a picture is unique
You can check the picture for uniqueness using online services. I use the service tineye.com.
Image verification can be specified in two ways. Upload the file from computer 1 and provide link 2 to the image already on the Internet.
In a matter of seconds, the picture will be checked from more than 18 billion! options and the service will provide an answer in the form of a list of sites on which the image and the picture itself are located. As you can see, there are no completely identical pictures. They are edited in editors. But the main thing is that robots have learned to read electronic code. And to achieve uniqueness you need to “sweat.”
How to check a picture for uniqueness on Google
Tineye.com is not the only verification service. Google and Yandex have even more opportunities. The check here is identical, so I’ll show it using Google as an example. Go to the service checking images in google.
Click on the camera icon. And you can also choose to upload a picture from your computer or indicate the website address. Google will show even more matches than tineye.
As you can see, you can do it in three clicks.
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Photos are one of the main types of content today . Do not include unverified photos in your texts and posts, especially if you write about complex social or political topics. Filling the site with content must be competent and of high quality - respect your readers and take care of your reputation.
There are several ways to check whether an illustration is real or a fake photo:
- If you are the proud owner of the Google Chrome browser, then we can congratulate you - the verification will take no more than a minute. Once in your browser, right-click on the suspicious photo and select “Find this image on Google.”
- If you don’t like Google Chrome or don’t have the opportunity to install it, then in this case special plugins will help you: for example, Who stole my pictures (allows you to find a picture in browsers such as Google, Yandex and Tineye).
- But you can check a picture for fakeness even without Chrome and plugins. How? Easily! In any browser, next to the tab in which you have an Internet resource with a suspicious illustration open, you need to open another tab. After that, in the new Google images section. Then return to the previous tab and drag the “suspicious” image into the new tab with the mouse and release it in the search bar.
- In addition, you can check not only images directly from sites, but also those saved on your computer’s hard drive - you just need to drag the photo into the image search bar in Google.
All of the above steps will allow you to determine whether the photo is original or has already been processed in Photoshop, as well as find out the date the picture was published and what is actually depicted in it.
Checking photos for authenticity and the absence of fake photos is the key to your professionalism and the trust of your readership.
Let's say you have some kind of image (drawing, picture, photograph), and you want to find the same (duplicate) or similar one on the Internet. This can be done using special tools from Google and Yandex search engines, the TinEye service, as well as the amazing PhotoTracker Lite browser extension, which combines all these methods. Let's look at each of them.
Search by photo in Google
- Provide a link to the image on the Internet
- Uploading a file from a computer
As a result, we get a complete list of similar pictures from the image that was chosen as a sample:
There is another good way that works in the Chrome browser. While on the page with the image you are interested in, move the mouse cursor to it, right-click and in the tooltip that opens, select “Find image (Google)”:
You will be immediately taken to the search results page!
Search by images in Yandex
With Yandex, everything is no less simple than with Google :) Follow the link https://yandex.by/images/ and click the camera icon in the upper right corner:
Enter the address of the image on the Internet or upload it from your computer (you can simply drag it to a special area at the top of the browser window):
The search result looks like this:
You instantly have access to the following information:
- What are the online dimensions of the image you uploaded as a sample for searching?
- List of sites where it appears
- Similar pictures (modified based on the original one or based on which the algorithm decided on their semantic similarity)
Many have probably already heard about the online service TinEye, which Russian-speaking users often call Tinai. It is developed by experts in the field of machine learning and object recognition. As a consequence of all this, Tinay is great not only for finding similar pictures and photographs, but their components.
TinEye's indexed image database contains more than 10 billion items, and is the largest in the entire Internet. “Everything can be found here” - this phrase perfectly characterizes the service.
There is another way to search in one click. By default, the “Show quick search icon” item is activated in the application settings. When you point at a photo or picture, a round green icon pops up, clicking on which starts a search for similar images - search results for Google, Yandex, Tinay and Bing will automatically open in new tabs.
The extension was created by our compatriot, whose hobbies are closely related to photography. He originally created this tool to quickly find his photos on other people's sites.
When you might need it
- You are a photographer, you post your photos on the Internet and want to see on which sites they are used and where your copyrights may be violated.
- You are a blogger or copywriter, write articles and want to choose an “unhackneyed” image for your material.
- What if someone uses your photo from your VKontakte or Facebook profile as an avatar on a forum or a fake account on some social network? But this is more than possible!
- You found a photo of an actor you know and want to remember his name.
In fact, there are a huge number of cases when searching by photo can be useful. You can give another example...
How to find the original of a given image
For example, you have some kind of photograph, perhaps cropped or photoshopped, and you want to find its original, or a better quality version. How to do it? Conduct a search in Yandex and Google, as described above, or using PhotoTracker Lite and get a list of all images found. Next, follow the following:
- The original image is usually larger and of better quality than the altered copy resulting from cropping. Of course, you can set a picture to any size in Photoshop, but when you enlarge it relative to the original, artifacts will always be observed. They can be easily noticed even with a cursory visual inspection.
- Original photographs often have watermarks indicating the author of the photo (last name, website address, company name, etc.). Of course, anyone can add a watermark to absolutely any image, but in this case, you can look for a sample photo on the website or by the author’s last name, he probably posts his portfolio online somewhere.
- And finally, a very simple sign. If your sample photo is black and white (sepia, etc.), and you find the same, but full-color photo, then you obviously do not have the original. much more difficult than converting a color photo to black and white :)
