In many ways, Google has made our lives simpler. From finding information about any topic, booking our flight tickets or playing games, Google always helps. In this article, we will discuss how Google helps us with Google Reverse Image Search and how it works on desktop and mobile devices.
What is Google Reverse Image Search?
Reverse Image Search is Google’s technology, wherein an individual can search for information via images on its SERPs. It shows the user what the image is about, possible related searches, web pages that include matching images and similar images across the web is. This can be easily done by just uploading images on Google SERP. In simple words, it is similar to your regular Google Search, the only difference is that here you use an image instead of text.
The Google Reverse Image Search can be helpful in the following scenarios:
- To trace the original source of any image
- Copyright violations check
- Finding details for any photo
Below given are the step-by-step instructions to perform a reverse image search on Google using your desktop or mobile device.
How to Do a Reverse Image Search on Desktop?
- Open Google in your browser (compatible with Safari, firefox and chrome) and go to the Images section or click here – https://images.google.com/
- Click on the Camera Icon to upload your Image
- Enter the URL for an image you’ve seen online, upload an image saved on your device or drag the image from another window to the search box.
- Click Search, and you will get the results. Explore the results that show the image you upload on top of the page along with some other suggestions. The results also show other sizes in which the uploaded photo is available to download.
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