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Reverse Image Searching with TinEye

Have you ever come across a photo or image with no information and you want to find out more? I've used TinEye to help track down the artists of uncredited photos I've seen in shares on Google+. If you can find the image elsewhere, you stand a fair chance of finding some credits for it.

From their website:
TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. When you submit an image to be searched, TinEye creates a unique and compact digital signature or 'fingerprint' for it, then compares this fingerprint to every other image in our index to retrieve matches. TinEye does not typically find similar images; it finds exact matches including those that have been cropped, edited or resized.

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Plugins – TinEye
The TinEye browser plug-ins. The TinEye browser plugin is the fastest way to search for web images right from Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari, or Opera. With the plugin installed, select any web image you…

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