OSINT at Home #20: Four Best Image Reverse Search Tools
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- This tutorial is part 20 of the OSINT At Home series. The tutorial covers the subject of image reverse search tools to help researchers with the practicalities and capabilities of various tools designed to delve deeper into the origins, occurrences, and details of images
The tutorial focusses on the best image reverse platforms, such as Google Lense, Yandex, Baidu image reverse search, TinEye, Bing image reverse search, and also goes into the practicalities of stock photo reverse search functions on photo for sale, or stock photo websites such as Getty images and Shutterstock.
For the case study in the presentation, I use two examples: first a satellite image of a lake that was seen on a Daily Mail article, and second, an artificially generated profile picture of a face. The links to those examples are below, so that you can follow along with this tutorial.
This session also covers a wider concept of looking at images in part of an investigation or research, where that image may provide more details, or context, about an issue, event or subject that you might be looking at.
The OSINT At Home series is useful for those looking to find digital breadcrumbs and pick up some methods of open source intelligence (OSINT), digital investigations and good old plain research. No matter who you are, or where you are in the world, you can follow these tutorials from home with publicly available information to answer questions such as who, what, where and when.
TOOLS
Google Image Reverse Search/Google Lense: www.google.com/imghp
Yandex Image Reverse Search: yandex.com/images?
Baidu Image Search: image.baidu.com/
TinEye Reverse Image Search: tineye.com/
Bing Visual Image Search: www.bing.com/visualsearch
Getty Image Search: www.gettyimages.co.uk/
Shutterstock Search by Image: www.shutterstock.com/
Alamy Image Search: www.alamy.com/
DATA SOURCES
Satellite image from Cameroon shown by Daily Mail: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...
Artificially generated face from my Twitter account: / 1326511935974731779
CREDITS FOR THIS TUTORIAL
Music Intro: World’s Fair - God Mode
Music Title and End: Dhaka by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
Artist: incompetech.com/ - Jak na to + styl
Did Google reverse search become worse in recent years? I remember the "visually similar images" actually being visually similar, but now they're more focused on the concept of an image rather than the image itself. A photo of a man wearing a cricket cap in this case.
Agree
yeah!!It has become worse!
Absolutely! I can't find anything in Google image search nowadays. Before was quite good
They've decided that enough is enough, giving the plebs free quality search is over. Its been nonsence for the past 3 years and more, and now even the normies are noticing it. Good luck finding a better one(except Yandex maybe), due to the internet search market being monopolyzed
yeah!!It has become worse and worse, started when they took away the custom time range from google images, because a doughbag in google "no one use" (only in doughbag mind)
Yandex is king in lots of scenarios I've found
ANOTHER excellent tutorial, thanks!
My pleasure!
pretty cool. knew about yandex and google. didn’t know much about the others so good to know. great share.
Thank you!
Thank you for all that you do. I really appreciate your informative videos.
You are so welcome
Is there much difference between tools in looking for horizontal flipped images?
Thank you
Is there a better app than atak?
Google used to offer narrowing down the reverse image search to specific sites or domains. Now they've removed that feature. Any idea of a tool, that offers to reverse image to specific sites ?
could you cover Maltego in an episode?
Gpt4 can do multimodal questions
What about reverse searching on a personal database of photos?
Yes that is what i am looking for too... everybody is explaining about online tools... i just want an offline tool that helps me to search offline using my HDD or network drives.
It depends on how technical you want to get. You can do a lot with python for image detection, duplicate detection etc, as well as using content both offline, or in an s3 bucket. Or you can use easy alternatives like getting images onto an iPhone, and let iPhone’s image recognition tool kick in.
@@Bendobrown yes, but you cannot reverse image search without rolling your own
how to reverse google search on bulk images
I wanted to find out whether a painting was a copy or an original one, so i used these online tools. The painting was about a woman who was standing in a forest road.
Unfortunately all these engines just gave me similar paintings, where people and forest roads were involved, but not the exact paining, even though it later turned out that is a very famous painting. After trying to find it for days, finally in the very bottom of the list of mages of the 17. search i finally found the exact painting i was trying to identify.
So based on this i call these search sites rather basic and unintelligent, where you cant set parameters to look for more exact matches... I dont think this is a limitation of the technology, its just a limitation of what is freely available to to public right now, or in other words these products are a kind of dumbed down versions of their true potentials.
Any idea how to get around this?
Yes exactly, the public gets squat, and private corps get all the goodies. The thing is, that i'm not sure that you can find a PAID better product using the regular search function, since its heavily biased as well. Would appreciate if anyone would post a name of a decent reverse image service(or a regular non image one even for that matter)
Google reverse image search is garbage