Property on Street view / Google earth

Sea_Shell

Bit of a techie question this.

If someone posts a zoomed in or redacted image of their plot or street, can this be reverse looked up using the image posted ?

Eg if posting about a boundary issue, location query etc etc.

user1977

Try it yourself and see what happens...

BarelySentientAI

It depends how strong your powers of google-fu are.

RHemmings

Once before, I posted cropped images from a Rightmove listing. Before posting, I did a reverse image search on Google to check they wouldn't come up. They didn't. I posted here. Within seconds loads of people had found the listing and were comparing the floorplans to other houses in the same street etc. Fortunately it wasn't the house I lived in, or one that I bought. But, it made me extra careful. 

Personally I've seen threads where streetview has been posted. I've not been able to locate the location, but other people did. 

There's some google fu magic going on that I'm not yet aware of. I wouldn't trust that if I can't find the property/location from reverse image search, that means that others won't be able to. 

If it's an image direct from Google Streetview, then it may have EXIF data giving the location. Screenshots from Google Streetview using screen capture software might not have the EXIF data, and be safer. But, no guarantee of complete safety.

mark_cycling00

It may use additional data about you in addition to just the image like your location or interests. 

I guess Google lens is very different from Google image search?

Maybe if you do an image search in an incognito tab Google has no context to help. But a lens search from a tab that's browsed this forum then it might assume it's to do with property for sale and focus on those images. And even know that other users viewing the same post have recently viewed that image. 

Once I typed "48" into a Google maps showing the SE of England and it auto populated an address. A few weeks later I discovered that a friend had just moved there. 

Albermarle

What would you do? Need to replace conservatory somehow... — MoneySavingExpert Forum

In this thread the home address was found from a floor plan.

user1977

Albermarle said:

What would you do? Need to replace conservatory somehow... — MoneySavingExpert Forum

In this thread the home address was found from a floor plan.

Which is rather easier when it's pretty much the same image. Google Streetview is going to create an almost infinite array of screengrabs depending on where you "go" on it, what level of zoom etc - think you'd have to be very lucky to pick something which the search engines would match with other pics, unless it was a well-photographed view.