The reverse image search option can be very helpful in all kinds of investigations.

Some of you may find the results quite surprising. This little experiment of mine was performed for three most well-known search engines with the “reverse image search” capabilities: Google, Bing and Yandex. But as usually with these kinds of services, some of them do better than others, some have more options for further search while the others have less. You upload a file or take a photo and in the blink of an eye you get the results of similar images, a list of websites which contain them, suggestions of related topics, etc. I bet most of you (if not everyone) performed a reverse image search using one of the popular search engines. Author of the OSINT hints series on Sekurak (in Polish). Quick tip: There are also websites for reverse image searching that you can use if you're looking for other non-Google methods.This is a guest blog post by Krzysztof Wosiński who is a quality and cybersecurity engineer of military IT products by day / OSINT researcher and social engineering enthusiast by night. It uses popular search engines, such as Google, Bing, Yandex, and Tiny, and it's available completely free for Android devices only. Search By Image is a free reverse image search app that helps you find images or photos that are similar. The app is available on both Google Play and App Store, and it's completely free. However, keep in mind that you might not always get a result. All you have to do is take a picture of it, and the app will use its advanced image recognition software to identify it for you. If you've ever seen an object in the real world and wondered what it is, CamFind can help. This will give you access to advanced search engines like Yandex. However, you can upgrade to the pro version through in-app purchases for $3.99.

It's available for both Android and iOS devices for free. The app doesn't have its own search engine, so it uses others (Google is the default) to do the reverse image search instead. If you're looking for something beyond the Google app and Google Chrome for your reverse image search needs, there are a couple of other apps you try.Īs long as you have the image file or its URL, you can use Reversee to do a reverse image search.

Yandex reverse image search engine