Google's New Search by Image

Who wants to know more about images on the web and your own photos?

Now you can explore the web in an entirely new way by beginning your Google search with an image.

Google announced several new features, and two of the new developments are on the desktop : the Android-style Voice Search and a new way to actually create queries: Google Search By Image (available in Chrome, or Firefox with an extension). You simply drag and drop an image or cut and paste an image URL in the search box, and then Google tries to recognize and deliver relevant results.

For example, search using a picture of your favorite band and see search results that might include similar images, webpages about the band, and even sites that include the same picture.

How to search

Visit images.google.com, or any Images results page, and click the camera icon in the search box. Enter an image URL for an image hosted on the web or upload an image from your computer - Inside Search by Image.

See also...

TinEye - a reverse image search engine.

You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. It is free to use for non-commercial searching.

TinEye regularly crawls the web for new images, and we also accept contributions of complete online image collections. To date, TinEye has indexed 1,972,682,763 images from the web to help you find what you're looking for. For more information, please see our FAQ, and for some real TinEye search examples, check out our Cool Searches page.