You want to give the algorithm a high-resolution image so it can see and compare images in the finest detail possible. Searching the high-resolution image should be a no-brainer. If you are having difficulty finding your image, you might want to try searching: High-Resolution Image
Once we understand this principle, we can manipulate our images to increase our chances of the algorithm finding all places your image appears. But what if you are the creator and you are trying to find where else your work is posted? Tricks of the TradeĪll of these tools are built on algorithms that compare pixels in Image A to pixels in Image B. In order to do that, you need to get permission to use that photo. Of course, just giving credit where credit is due, won’t protect you from a copyright infringement lawsuit. From this limited sample size, it appears that their database is not quite as large as Google (not surprising) and their algorithm isn’t as accurate. In March 2014, Bing released a reverse image search tool, Image Match. Bing only allows you to search by pointing the search to a URL or uploading an image. Tineye can be searched using the same four methods as Google Images: So Tineye’s database is a drop in the bucket in comparison to the number of the images available on the Internet. While this sounds like a lot, in September 2015, Instagram statistics show that its users have shared more than 40 billion images on their service. In September 2015, Tineye’s database contained just over 12.9 billion images.
The reason it hasn’t bypassed Google Images is the size of their database.
I would love Tineye to be my go-to resource because their reverse search algorithm is so dang accurate. The downside of Google Images is the fact that the algorithm is designed to give you lots of results to pick from, including visually similar results, so you might have a couple pages of results to wade through. The Google search bots are constantly crawling the Internet, meaning that it’s much more likely that the source of that image is in their database. One of the huge benefits of Google Images (and the reason it’s my go-to resource) is the size of the database.