Google Search Reverse Image is a much less useful tool for web-savvy for locating the original owner behind the image.
Google Custom Search Reverse Image Uses
1. Determine forged profiles
2. Find out about copyright pirate theft
3. Investigate against image rights
4. Who else is selling your product? Steal your idea?
Say, you just tweeted that what you suspect is an automated profile (known as a bite). Here’s a useful way to determine if the person behind the image is the person. You should now get a list of places where Google found the same image or derivatives from it.
There are several reasons to use a reverse image search engine. Perhaps you are a photographer who is using your photos without authorization. Perhaps you are a graphic designer looking for a larger version of a photograph. You might be interested to see if someone is using your photos from Facebook, Kick or Instagram. Or, yes, maybe you’re a nave and a maxim from catfish.
TinEye is the first website to use image recognition technology and to this day is still the most popular and widely used reverse search engine. It’s great for professional photographers or creatives who have worked offline and want to see if any of them have been stolen or modified and reused.
Using the Google Custom Search Reverse Image has limitations with the APIs
As for current API, there is no mention of reverse image search functionality. not even anything except string based queries.
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/reference/cse/list
So Google-custom-search doesn’t provide that facility.
For reference look at all the different kinds of APIs supported by the Google here:
There are paid apis available from some vendors.
TinEye APIhttps://services.tineye.com/TinEyeAPI
Incandescent APIhttp://incandescent.xyz/pricing/
Custom search engines are not just limited Images, you can try ExpertRec Custom Search Engine for all the custom needs.
Here we will visit the steps required to add the ExpertRec Custom search engine to your website. This is one of the easiest setup processes of all the available options out there and is highly recommended.
- Navigate to https://cse.expertrec.com/newuser?platform=cse and signup with your Google ID.
- Enter your website’s URL when prompted. You can select a server location near you and add the URL of your sitemap if you wish to. These will be auto-detected otherwise.
- You can play around with the settings and customize the UI as the crawl runs. Once it is complete, you can check out a fully functional demo before taking the search to your website.
- You can take the search to your website with little to no effort. All you need to do is to paste the code snippet available on the dashboard on your website.
Add a search engine to your website at 9 USD per month
ExpertRec comes with more customization options that you can explore. You can read this article to find a more detailed guide on the installation and configuration.
Learn more about Google Search Image in the video
