Do you know more than 2 billion images are being searched on the internet every day? Humans live for visuals and what they see they believe in it. So it is always better to incorporate images with the story someone is telling. Be it on social media or a blog the images play a big role in attracting and retaining visitors. However, to know which image comes from a source one needs to verify the source. The best way to do that is to perform a reverse image search.

What is reverse image search?
The reverse image search is something we can do every day and for every image, as it is very easy to perform with the right tool. All you need is the image itself or its URL which needs to be uploaded in the search engine image section – and the results are shown like other search results, but in form of images. The RIS is quite important these days not for social media marketers, but everyone owns a significant digital space (i.e Insta handle, Facebook page, Twitter or Pinterest handles).

A reverse image search can be performed using different tools, a few of the popular ones are Google image search, reverseimagesearch.sc, Yandex, and tin eye.
How these tools can affect our daily routine and what benefits they can offer are listed below. Although the benefits are enormous, hard to sum up in just one article, I try my level best to share a few of the top ones.

Find out who is using the image?
With the help of reverse image search, it is possible to find the image and where it is placed. No matter how many websites the searched image has been placed on, a thorough reverse search can share all the places in one search. What, how, and which size the image has been used. This can help someone to identify if his/her visual property is being stolen. And someone can fight image theft.

Claim the copyrighted visual property:
The free reverse image search can help someone find the unauthorized use of an image and let them take appropriate action against the thief misusing their visual property. The image property can be of any time as RIS is not only restricted to images only. With the help of RIS, someone can figure out product details of a grocery item, an eCommerce product, TV pictures, and drawings. It also can identify digitally encoded prints, such as if the pixel quality has been changed yet it can identify that the image is being modified but list it in the search.

How to find unlabeled products?
Okay, have you ever been shopping and identified a product that has no label or is in another language and you cannot find out what it is or why it has been used? Then RIS can be your life savior. All you need is to take the picture, upload it and run a reverse image search using the right tool and you will get all the available images related to the product image and get you answers in no time.