Check the uniqueness of the photo. How to check a picture for uniqueness? The best ways are online. Search engines Google and Yandex

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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Instructions

Image search is carried out by such giants as Google and Yandex. If you need to check the uniqueness of an image posted on the Internet, right-click on it and select “Copy image link” from the context menu. On the Google home page, click the "Images" link in the upper right corner, then click on the camera icon at the right edge of the search bar. Right-click on the “Specify Link” field and select the “Insert” command, then click “Search by Image”. The program will display the number of copies found and links to resources where these images are located.

To determine the uniqueness that is stored on your computer, click on the camera icon and go to the “Upload file” tab. Click Browse and navigate to the desired image. If the program does not find exactly the same picture, the result will be images that are similar in color and composition. Enter images into the search bar on the results page to narrow your search, for example, "Mardi Gras pictures."

The Google Chrome browser can also evaluate the uniqueness of an Internet image. Right-click on an image on the site and select “Find this image on Google.” The result will be similar to Google Images.

The Pictures.Yandex service works in a similar way. On the main page of this search engine, click “Pictures” and click on the camera icon at the right edge of the search bar. To determine the uniqueness of a picture posted on a web resource, enter a link to the image in the input field and click “Find.” To determine the uniqueness of a photo on your computer, follow the “Select file” link and specify the path to the desired image. However, Google recognizes the image more accurately and, accordingly, returns more results.

The TinEye service is often used to determine the uniqueness of pictures. Enter the web address of the image in the Enter Image Address field and click Search. The program displays the number of matches found and the web page with a similar image. If you need to evaluate the uniqueness of an image stored on your computer, click “Browse” and specify the path to the file.

You can check the uniqueness of the image using the Etxt Anti-Plagiarism service, which is offered by the etxt.ru content exchange. Download the free program from the main page of the site and select “Image uniqueness” in the “Operations” menu. Click the dotted button to the right of the search bar and enter the path to the file on your computer, or enter the web address of the picture into the search bar and press Enter. The search result will be displayed at the bottom of the window.

Unique, interesting and high-quality content is the basis for the success of any website. If everything is more or less clear with the text, then the question of the uniqueness of the images remains open. Pictures are the most important part of the content of any website and it is natural that the uniqueness of these pictures will play an important role in promoting the resource. Today I will tell you, dear reader, how to check a picture for uniqueness. Let's close this issue once and for all, shall we?

How to check a picture for uniqueness in Yandex

Today, there are several ways to check a picture for uniqueness online. In this article we will look at some of the simplest and most accessible methods, and we will start with the Yandex search engine.

It’s very easy to check a picture for uniqueness in Yandex. To do this, you need to open a search engine and click on the “pictures” link above the search bar:

In the window that appears, you will now need to click on the camera icon:

After this, a drop-down tab will appear where you will be asked to check the picture for uniqueness by uploading from a computer or simply dragging it, adding a link to the picture if it has already been uploaded to some resource. To get the address of a picture uploaded to the site, just right-click on it and select “Open picture in a new tab” in the menu that appears. After this, the picture will open in the browser and you can copy the link in the address bar and paste it into the line for verification.

You can use whichever is most convenient of these two options. After you add a picture for the search, you will see the result in the search results. If the picture is unique, then the Yandex image search engine will tell you that no similar pictures were found, or it will show all available results. In my case, the picture turned out to be unique, since I had previously worked with it in order to post it on my other website.

It will be ideal if you get the same result.

So, we looked at how to check a picture for uniqueness in Yandex. Now we can go to a similar service from Google to check the same picture.

How to check an image for uniqueness Google (Google)

Checking a picture for uniqueness in Google is also not difficult, because we will do everything the same as when checking pictures in Yandex.

So, open the Google search engine. In the upper right corner we find a link called “pictures” and click on it.

After this, we will see this picture, where we will need to find the camera icon and click on it:

After this, just like in the Yandex service, you will be asked to upload a picture from your computer or simply drag and drop it. Just as in the case of Yandex, you can add a link to the uploaded image.

After this, you will see search results for similar images in the Google search engine. As usual, as an example, I added my image for verification and got this result:

My image for the Google search engine also turned out to be unique. This is exactly what I wanted.

Checking the image for uniqueness using a browser

After you have tried the two previous ways to check a picture for uniqueness online, this option will be the easiest for you. However, you can only check pictures from websites, since this function is not applicable for pictures on a computer.

To do this, just right-click on the picture of interest and select “Find picture” in the menu that appears. Depending on which search engine is running by default in your browser, the result will be shown there.

How to check a picture for uniqueness online using TinEye

And now I will show you another interesting way to check a picture for uniqueness online. We will talk about the TinEye.Com service. This service allows you to conduct a broader check because it searches not only in Runet search engines, but also partially in the search engines of the so-called “burzhunet”. Perhaps this opportunity is not so relevant for us, but nevertheless it exists and in some cases it can be useful.

We go to the website of this search engine using the link TinEye.Com Just like in Yandex and Google, here you can upload an image from your computer, simply drag it from your computer directly to the site, or add the copied address of the image to the search bar.

I’ll take the picture that I used before to check, in order to compare with the results obtained from Yandex and Google. Since the image is on my computer, I'll just drag it directly onto the site.

We wait for some time and look at the result.

As you can see, the picture turned out to be unique, which I had no doubt about. There are no search results and therefore I can safely publish this picture on my website, thereby increasing its significance for search engines.

We looked at the simplest and most accessible ways to check a picture for uniqueness online and, as you can see, there is nothing complicated here. However, many may have a reasonable question: How can you make a picture unique? To do this, you will have to work a little and use the help of some programs and services. But I will try to talk about this in another article.

That's all for me. I hope that my article was useful to you. Leave your comments, share your experience with pictures and subscribe to my blog updates in the form below this article.

I wish you success!

Best regards, Sergey Podyukov
"Webmaster's Workshop"

Let's say you have some 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 :)

Identifying a fake image is similar to fact checking - the steps are the same, the tools are slightly different. Don’t forget to include logic at the very beginning: could this photo, in principle, have been taken at the time and place with which it is correlated? If the logic is in order, we move on.

Step 1: Is this photo original or not?

What if someone has already posted it before? We check through Google Image Search or TinEye. Google Image Search finds similar images and allows you to sort them by size and date. TinEye makes it possible to compare found images with each other and also shows the file size and the date of its appearance on the Internet.

The better the image size you use, the more likely you are to stumble upon the original faster.

Perhaps the image you are looking for consists of two pieces of composited parts. Divide the image in any graphics editor and look for each part. The image can also be mirrored, so try changing it through the graphic editor in this way and re-searching.

Processed image in Foto Forensics. Source: stopfake.org

You can check to what extent the image has been digitally processed through the website Photo Forensics. It finds areas that have been "painted" on an image or inserted into it during editing. After processing, the program produces a photo where the edited fragments will stand out from the others.

Kazakhstan case

Residents of the East Kazakhstan region, according to the portal “News of Ust-Kamenogorsk and East Kazakhstan region”, in mid-July began to receive photos via Whatsapp of hailstones and sheep that they had killed, with a text stating that this happened in their area.

Source: yk-news.kz

We turn on the inner skeptic and check it through Google Image Search.

As we can see, the photo of hailstones is used in an event that also occurred in July, more precisely on the 18th in Spain, where there was hail.

Source: Google Image Search

Another photo, with killed sheep, was used even earlier - on the image aggregator imgur it dates back to 2015. The image quality there also leaves much to be desired and suggests that the file is also not original.

Source: TinEye

In a word, the cataclysm clearly occurred far from Eastern Kazakhstan.

Step 2. Who is the author of the photo?

What's on his avatar? The photo or image can be checked again through an image search (see step 1).
When was the account registered? How active is he?
What videos, comments, posts does the user make? Does he mostly upload his own or other people's images?
Who is the owner of the site or blog (if the blog is on a separate domain)? You can check it through the service