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All of these fakes can actually be exposed quite easily if you master reverse image searches on search engines. And that doesn't just apply to these three fakes just mentioned, but to a large number of false reports that we have been able to dismantle over the years in a very short space of time through an image search.
The good thing about reverse image search: this search is applicable to all users! You can't break the internet with it either, so you can try out the search function, because practice helps a lot. And because reverse image search is so important, we'll repeat here how reverse image search works. In this article we will present these using the Google search engine, but we would like to point out that there are of course other search engines with the image search function. We'll come back to this at the end of the article.
The image search on Google can be opened either directly via the address https://www.google.de/imghp or alternatively via the search engine's homepage by clicking on the term “Images” in the top right. A slightly different input area opens (in both cases). You will find the note “Google Images” and a small symbol in the shape of a camera will appear in the input field.
Welcome, you've come to the right place. The web search for images begins here. Next we need to load an image into this search.
This is how you get an image into the search engine:
Drag and drop
This requires 2 browser windows, or better yet 2 browser tabs, in advance. One contains the image and the other contains the search engine. You click on the desired image with the left mouse button and keep the mouse button pressed. Now move the mouse pointer to the tab for the search engine window while still holding down the mouse button. This is activated by simply moving the mouse pointer while holding down the mouse button. Now move the mouse pointer to the search field and then release the left mouse button. You basically threw the image into the search field with the mouse.
Upload
A second variant is a temporary download. You briefly save the desired image on your hard drive, go to the search engine, tap on the photo symbol there and select the “Upload image” function. Now all you have to do is select the desired image from the hard drive. For this it is also helpful to have a screenshot program installed Greenshot These saved screenshots can be conveniently loaded at this point.
right mousekey
Very convenient: the Google Chrome browser, as well as its relatives, now have a built-in selection point for image searches. You simply right-click on the image you are looking for and select “Search for this image in Google” in the dialog window that opens. This is actually the easiest way, but not every browser supports it.
The real task: evaluate results!
No matter how you send an image into the image search: you will almost always get a result. But these results only say where the image you are looking for appears. If you are looking for the original use or the original information about an image, you have to search for the most original version of the image and sort it accordingly. There are a few rules of thumb that you can use to evaluate images:
- the older the site, the more original
- the higher resolution the image, the more original
- the larger the image detail, the more original
For this search you use the filters with which you can search for the oldest location using the box principle. Here's a hint: you don't just start one search, but in the end you start several in a row, with increasingly fine-tuned filter settings that are based on the previous search results. As mentioned before, practice is everything here!
Tip for advanced users: Reverse searches using Google or TinEye Reverse Image Search sometimes do not produce any results because you do not know an image or have not included it in the index. Here, image searches via Yandex sometimes produce astonishing results.
And videos?
You can approach the search for videos in the same way as searching for images, but there is a convenient trick here: You can search for videos using the YouTube DataViewer . This site (run by Amnesty International) breaks down videos into still images and directly offers reverse search engines for each individual still image.
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