"By now, just about everyone is familiar with Google Image Search. Type in a phrase, hit the button and you're bombarded with images that may or may not be related to what you were looking for. But now Google has reversed the process with Images.Google.com, allowing users to submit an image and get a pile of pertinent web results.
The project was unveiled at Google's Inside Search event. The feature will be rolling out over the next few days. If you go there now and see a little camera icon in the search bar, it's already enabled for you.
In order to search, you can paste the images URL (if it's already on the web), upload it through the browser interface or just drag and drop the image from your desktop. There are also Chrome and Firefox extensions if you feel like you'll be using it a lot. Once the image is processed, you're bombarded with web results as well as related images.
I tried a couple of my own personal images and it pulled up many other images with a similar overall look in terms of color and brightness. Picking a more famous image will generate more robust results, though you'll likely get some stuff that's just wildly unrelated."
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It may not be available here yet because I don't see any camera icon anywhere. I plugged in the url for one of my pictures on a public fb page and I got an error sayiing it couldn't find the document.
@dmortega You have to go to images first - maybe you already tried that. But when I go to images, the search box has a little camera in it. When I'm at the main google pg. there is no little camera.
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Even though the article does it, I'll mention tineye.com too, as that *literally* does an image search, and is pretty damn useful.
http://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZitacv13-Kw0oS-SBdE9XLXnbwioIX3DDjlCn7no8kZmvg1VwCfkNed-MEvAowqnWuT861FUwqQ1QZigmmzTk-jx0-EH0hz415yl1bYP_1Cr4Pccq8Sw0BBwbxwBJW4MG0qsp8KSmQN_1yP_1LCed2zSAdTijIv3sSWcj8CcaMtyEvi_1FPR2unRWzD4et6b4E-M8IZYTbQIagYgcQGFfs3eNTKLbOmqWEUmRINZV0VIXdTdS93lut5e0FHD-U1-39caV2WKTF5F3Syrd8-0gWclvXUm2-KZBfBXYHPJbLhYlki0VA4KhQcG7aOgqEsroJIzMCMQ6PJdmwiyth6j6gdFYPMU0OE43zgFe6RXpEcGWiD5-tY0ZM8nolvDFTfvICUVfeC_1CaZ-fs-U5LlkOZixa8I2G6PCbDmvoepACL3adEhp_1T2Ikvm7Vy0rFPifbZ-SMMFo84TfKnCJoBBbr1jpqsMwkeGPu_103TPKRJAr8ktkcsN4lA4jTf2yyV2tnVb9YLSZvYCqsCcxNVvsZ-mBhSMMKsZgR6hMhh6qKOnAVNYgOw_11_1yfYQDXYpVYFSzovmRX0kTz8JovhCl-SAV01ieHeRtpF90nbMWyWBGPw_13nuggDTp9mM2mw9dblZzBsw4I5sO_1RtjkYO9gzUnC4fxaL7-E98fm5k7IgXppg50qb_1NTrucKfZB53YTZDhGRqu3wGE6D34jSFIy_1RQp2NTFy7LJYrz_1vod2BXPPV08AGEU0nwL8qMVOlAUQjejKJRpJq6R4Gh_1y640aOQOOHBZS_1S-f7TtynCzps1kYr3FdHCM6drz5RM7NevYJKT05iaHuDbqMcRL0AMY-sjyHaotOKNWlZQzT3kGtE5SasPI7_1fNQ7nwwPfvzB0PqvJDqpeHDM3QaYOUR7KLc-zdIEB2oN-aB0mX07eNPpFdsFOwpEXLqA2oNHwtDSrdWGKeX3Pf8eUlWbvwiFmkc0afZysNesOT2BTbd_1ogic7B6nJ-0JIXMNEQdpYWdE-mhmdKF47HXWx1rtvPpHeNNbpvp0JsOgn0wo3PZHxduOQHGIrDDBvAwR91wBpX-oibP8sdu92f9DNeX2BpKnVg2fDtKpkNbIEN1zNcrHpceB1oMGYVpya_1TieTcj2glE26nSxB9DtCEmhdCE13JrTG6hn3fPcqmZysk3PfAQx4LvAdBYcOVpwQSpz_1QimhswzFgLYSZ9r_1zyvyAOjgHtmgtJuhw4lkB5tuaiWDzhsIJTTb1kKyOKq68fwg5dTJVGeDgEhnwvPelBCQa2S_1s1IVFy02sLpp00vBIEEQj_1g&num=10&hl=en
Hmmm .... I don't think it saved the search because I just get the main google page. Glad it works
It may not be available here yet because I don't see any camera icon anywhere. I plugged in the url for one of my pictures on a public fb page and I got an error sayiing it couldn't find the document.