Now You Can Use An Image To Search On Google Using Your Phone
We think with words, not images. Have you ever just thought about something in images? I don’t think so… there’s always the narration that runs alongside the visuals in our minds.
That’s why search engines like Google, Bing, Duck Duck Go have text fields for a search bar. You can say what you can type… so there’s voice search that is gaining popularity nowadays, thanks to Alexa, and other voice assistants.
So, what’s a reverse image search? Apart from words and voice, there’s another way to search on Google — using images. No, I am not talking about image searches, the search engine feature that lets you uncover images using words.
Instead, I am talking about using an image to search for similar images, or even find the source of your image at hand.
What you’ll uncover as you keep on reading -
- Use Bing Search To Reverse Image Search
- Use Chrome To Reverse Image Search
- Use Google Lens To Reverse Image Search
- Use Android Phone To Reverse Image Search
- Use Third-Party Websites To Reverse Image Search
There’s a new feature in the town of Search Land that’s gaining a lot of popularity, it’s called reverse image search on Google. Have you ever wanted to know the source of an image? Where did it come from? Who was its author? Or better find similar images..
The advantage of finding similar images is -
- Say, you have a snap of your old T-shirt, and you want to buy the same one from a store… but you don’t know if the stores in your neighborhood still have this same piece! So, you search for this T-shirt online using its image as a query. You might get a better deal or find its availability in some e-commerce store.
- Maybe, you want to know the name of the flower in your neighbor’s garden… so zoom in with your camera and take a snap… but don’t peek at anything else… and search online for its information.
- If you want to buy the exact vase you saw at your friend’s place… but couldn’t fathom words for it!
And anything else that you see and you feel like tinkering… just go ahead, take a snap and reverse image search using Google or Bing or your phone, it works all the same.
Let’s see how we can actually do it, step-by-step.
