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I’ve been testing Google’s new reverse image search function for the past couple of days and it’s a most welcome addition to their services, as well as a welcome rival/compliment to Tineye. I have the Chrome extensions for both of them installed, and it makes looking up images as easy as pie.
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I haven’t had the chance to play around with this yet, but I’m excited about the possibilities. Tineye has always been pretty limited, so I’m hoping Google’s “search by image” feature will be better.
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a few minutes later…
It works! It works very very well… almost too well. I’ve found dozens of people using just one image without citations! Now I almost wish I didn’t know… it’s rather disheartening. I’ve never minded people blogging my photos with citations and links back to the image, but to see so much outright theft!
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Of course, the really good news about all of this is that it will force people to be honest, especially if checking is only a few clicks away!
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…45 minutes later…
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I’ve had the chance to search for results from some of my other popular images, and they haven’t been nearly as bad as my teddy bear picture. So I guess the lesson here is to not take pictures of teddy bears that you find on the sidewalk! :)
Still, I’m finding more stuff on blogs, fake websites and several other places for a lot of the other images I’ve checked on.
