Search by Image - New Google Image Feature

An image is worth 1000 words so why to search only for a text in Google? The concept is known as reverse image search. The concept which implies that you need not input keywords every time to find a relevant page on the web, it require you to upload an image or paste the URL of the image and the search engine will try to find out most relevant results in context of the image.

So for example if you want to search for information about Taj Mahal you need not put in keyword as a search query instead you can use image of Taj Mahal from your desktop or URL of that image. The search engine will look for where this image locate on websites on internet.

I would mention two image search engines which work on the concept of reverse image search.

Google Images:
1. Go to http://images.google.com/ and click on the Camera icon in the search pane.

2. After clicking on the camera icon you will find three options:

Copy and paste the image URL from a website and search engine will find results with reference to the image.
You can upload the image from your local machine and search engine will find results with reference to the image.
You can even drag and drop the image to carry out the search.

Check out this video for more details on Search by Image feature of Google Images:




2. TinEye claims to be the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks.

Check out the video to understand how this works.