Google has begun rolling out a long awaited for improvement to their Image Search, and they're calling it "Search By Image"; basically, this is a search where you start with an image and find out where it originated, what it's actually capturing, who might have taken the image, etc. This is very similar to what TinEye has been doing for several years (with much success, I might add).
Here's how Google's Search by Image works. Since they are rolling this out one datacenter at a time, you might not have this enabled from where you're using Google quite yet; you'll know if you do when you see a camera icon in the images.google.com search bar.
- Find an image you want to research, either from your computer or from the Web.
- Find the camera icon, click on it, and select "Upload An Image".
- If you've found an image on the Web that you're interested in, right-click on it to copy its unique URL, then click the camera icon and select "Paste Image URL".
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Thanks for the update, as always. Here my 2ct additions.
1. Does not show up in Opera on Linux.
2. Does not work at all. None of the suggested ‘visually similar images’ it suggested during my trials had something to do with the original. Not in the least, I would say. Try David Cameron, and Google returns a satellite, two airoplanes, a telephone, cartoons etc. Crap.
Promising though, and thanks anyway for the updates which are always very much appreciated!