Bit suspicious of a profile picture?

ThriftyFlorence

Hi,

Just had a thought which I had to share!

It's about Google's new image search. Has everyone heard of it? It allows you to drag and drop any image into its image search toolbar, and it finds similar images on the web.

Particularly helpful if you have a friend who is 'seeing' or developing trust with a stranger/someone online and you think their profile picture looks a bit suspicious. Google can tell you if it's a movie star, sportsperson or point to where the image is being used elsewhere (if it is).

Also, you can try it with your own image; someone else might be using it or you might have a profile set up somewhere that you don't want anymore.

Go to Google.com and click 'Images' (or just type in images.google.com). Then, drag the image from the (suspected) profile or online page onto this images field.

:T:beer:

Evilm

I've done this before with Tineye. Tineye was around before Google's service but can only match nearly exact images (whereas Google will try to identify the image and provide both similar images as well as other items on the same subject). Managed to find a myspace page with suspiciously different details on and told my friend who then was able to deal with that person.

fluffnutter

ThriftyFlorence wrote: »

Hi,

Just had a thought which I had to share!

It's about Google's new image search. Has everyone heard of it? It allows you to drag and drop any image into its image search toolbar, and it finds similar images on the web.

Particularly helpful if you have a friend who is 'seeing' or developing trust with a stranger/someone online and you think their profile picture looks a bit suspicious. Google can tell you if it's a movie star, sportsperson or point to where the image is being used elsewhere (if it is).

Also, you can try it with your own image; someone else might be using it or you might have a profile set up somewhere that you don't want anymore.

Go to Google.com and click 'Images' (or just type in images.google.com). Then, drag the image from the (suspected) profile or online page onto this images field.

:T:beer:

I'm not sure whether I'm a trusting, happy-go-lucky type, but these are not the first applications I'd think of when using Google Images.

Think of all the great things you could do with an image search rather than indulge your own paranoia!

arcon5

It's a joke.

I dragged and dropped a picture of me and the partner in London and this was apparently 'visually similar'

EDIT: link removed, probably not appropriate on an adult friendly website.

Oh my, this feature is a complete farce! About 10% off the visually similar images are explicitly disgusting! From guy orgies to obese woman with the saggies out!!

*note to self: never use this again*

Alex-Riley.

it's better for looking for famous people that you can't remember the name of

I used it once for college we had to name the horror movies from they posters (i've never watched a horror movie)

quietheart

I tried my facebook profile pic,
Apparently I only look similar to pre-school children.
I'm nearly 43....

gb12345

I've just tried it on a couple of pictures and the matches were laughable. Think I'll stick to TinEye.

rolymo_2

LOL !!!! just tried it with one of my FB profile pics, 2 of the 'visually similar images' were of dogs !!!! if i hadnt of already had half a bottle of wine i could get quite offended lol !!!

somethingcorporate

What a useful service. I pulled in a picture of my wife and I on our wedding and this was the 4th best match google could find after a door frame and a novelty mop bucket:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.snotrocketscience.com/share/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/IMG_0946.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.snotrocketscience.com/share/2011/12/sadie-the-pony/img_0946/&h=1680&w=1260&sz=214&tbnid=mmCzZ1DtUjwq1M:&tbnh=90&tbnw=68&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=&docid=N5Zvm37483bUgM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0Vz_TqvtO5Ts8QPrufzGAQ&ved=0CDoQ9QEwBQ&dur=3848

ThriftyFlorence

For all you compers, if you want to enter Facebook comps that ask you 'where was this pic taken?' or 'what is this', it does help to drag the image!

I know it doesn't always work on people's pics but it might just work for one person, which is why I thought to share :A