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Tip for "Where is this image" type competitions
Fergal1982
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Hi All,
I thought I'd share a couple of tips regarding the competitions where you have to identify where/what the image is, or are given an image as a clue to identify the answer to something.
Tineye
This site, whilst not necessarily as extensive as google, searches for images rather than keywords. You either upload a file, or provide it with a url to the image, and it searches the sites it has indexed for the image you supply.
The great part of Tineye, is that if you give it part of an image, it will find images that contain that portion too. Additionally, it can sometimes find images that are nearly the same but slightly different (e.g. if someone has photoshopped a dog into the image).
It's not 100% effective, but it can be a useful port of call - I've answered at least one competition on here using Tineye.
Google
If you right click on the image, you will get an option like "Copy Image Url" or "Copy Image Location", if you take this and paste it into google, one of the options you will be given at the top of the search results should be "search by image". Selecting this should throw up any pages google indexed that use that exact image (i.e. reference the image by the url). This will give you any other pages using that image, which should help identify where/what the image is.
I thought I'd share a couple of tips regarding the competitions where you have to identify where/what the image is, or are given an image as a clue to identify the answer to something.
Tineye
This site, whilst not necessarily as extensive as google, searches for images rather than keywords. You either upload a file, or provide it with a url to the image, and it searches the sites it has indexed for the image you supply.
The great part of Tineye, is that if you give it part of an image, it will find images that contain that portion too. Additionally, it can sometimes find images that are nearly the same but slightly different (e.g. if someone has photoshopped a dog into the image).
It's not 100% effective, but it can be a useful port of call - I've answered at least one competition on here using Tineye.
If you right click on the image, you will get an option like "Copy Image Url" or "Copy Image Location", if you take this and paste it into google, one of the options you will be given at the top of the search results should be "search by image". Selecting this should throw up any pages google indexed that use that exact image (i.e. reference the image by the url). This will give you any other pages using that image, which should help identify where/what the image is.
Wins so far (2022): Gaming Keyboard (Jan)
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I've used the google one before and it's very useful.
Can't find anything on the tineye site about searching images though?0 -
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