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09/16/2011 10:09:20 AM · #1 |
I just noticed that Google image search now allows you to drag and drop an image into the search box from any web page. It will search for other versions of the file you drop, plus "visually similar" images. Not sure if this is rolled out everywhere yet.
I dragged this image of a Toronto building as seen from below. It showed a bunch of similarly blue, upward-viewing building pictures. Then, when I typed "Toronto" in the search box on the results page, the images were closer to mine, and in fact, a picture of the same building, from the same perspective, was displayed. |
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09/16/2011 10:29:37 AM · #2 |
| Hey, that works even better than TinEye ! |
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09/16/2011 10:37:18 AM · #3 |
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09/16/2011 10:46:27 AM · #4 |
Fuck me! I should take a year off and chase up businesses using my shit! >:-(
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09/16/2011 10:52:41 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Fuck me! I should take a year off and chase up businesses using my shit! >:-( |
lol
I seem to remember this being in beta a while ago, but had forgotten all about it. It's a great feature. Now all I need is to be able to hum in to the search box and have google tells me what song I've had stuck in my head all day! |
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09/16/2011 10:55:59 AM · #6 |
| That's freakin' me out, man...... |
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09/16/2011 11:00:02 AM · #7 |
there is also a firefox plugin that will conduct a search across 5 major search engines, not just google, i haven't tried it yet.
//www.popphoto.com/gear/2011/09/who-stole-my-pictures-firefox-plugin-helps-you-track-down-image-thieves
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09/16/2011 11:26:44 AM · #8 |
Holy Crap on a stick, using that Google Image,
1. I found out I was photograph of the Day twice on 1x
and the other it has been stolen all over the place,
wowowow |
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09/16/2011 01:28:01 PM · #9 |
I can't seem to drag and drop that image into Google search. It keeps telling me that the image cannot be smaller than 9pix by 9 pix.
How are you dragging it? |
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09/16/2011 01:34:29 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by slickchik:
I can't seem to drag and drop that image into Google search. It keeps telling me that the image cannot be smaller than 9pix by 9 pix.
How are you dragging it? |
are you dragging and dropping from this site? |
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09/16/2011 02:22:16 PM · #11 |
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09/16/2011 04:19:51 PM · #12 |
| from this site, you can only drag your own photos. They do some dort of magic here that makes everyone else's images report back that they are 1px x 1px |
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09/16/2011 04:34:14 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by larryslights:
from this site, you can only drag your own photos. They do some dort of magic here that makes everyone else's images report back that they are 1px x 1px |
That's because there is a transparent overlay over the actual image that's 1px x 1px. When you drag..that's what what your uploading. |
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09/16/2011 05:01:32 PM · #14 |
LOL I guess the system isn't quite perfect yet.
I just tried it out with my footsy boot image:
and the matches it came back with had NO feet or boots in them. It totally concentrated on the timber..... all the "matches" had timber floors or tables. |
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09/16/2011 05:06:36 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by Beetle:
LOL I guess the system isn't quite perfect yet.
I just tried it out with my footsy boot image:
and the matches it came back with had NO feet or boots in them. It totally concentrated on the timber..... all the "matches" had timber floors or tables. |
Might not be perfect yet, but it works better than Tin-Eye right now due to the huge Google database. In fact, I have a thread forth coming here that I will start once I cover all my bases and secure my evidence.
So what the heck am I talking about? I did a search of one of my images this morning and found it illegally being used on 6 websites!
More to come...
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09/16/2011 05:08:47 PM · #16 |
I tried it with a few of mine and they directed me to my website!! but with others I got completely unrelated results...
It needs some tweaking but so far so cool! |
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09/16/2011 05:12:35 PM · #17 |
| Wow, it does work. I popped on of my images in from DPC and got 16 pages of returns, all showing where my little photo went, and not one false return. Sure beats tineye |
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09/16/2011 05:12:54 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by IAmEliKatz:
I tried it with a few of mine and they directed me to my website!! but with others I got completely unrelated results...
It needs some tweaking but so far so cool! |
If you notice on the results it shows photos that say visually similar. Even when the photo is nothing like yours it still has a certain percentage of the same color tones and pixel data. The search engine does a comparison based on file checksum, size, title, name of file etc. All the actual file characteristics that normally would yield results if the image was altered slightly or kept in tact. Then it also uses an algorithm that goes even deeper in hopes of hitting results based on pixel information such as tones, hues, shapes in the image etc. Pretty cool actually.
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09/16/2011 05:23:01 PM · #19 |
| A friend of mine works at Google. He says the most depressing place in the world is a windowless room there where any posted image with a certain percentage of flesh tones has to be screened for porn, because only human eyes can tell if it is an "unsafe" image. These poor guys spend the entire day seeing random and some screamingly disgusting images pop up on their screens every five seconds, eight hours a day. Turnover is very high. |
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09/16/2011 05:30:23 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
A friend of mine works at Google. He says the most depressing place in the world is a windowless room there where any posted image with a certain percentage of flesh tones has to be screened for porn, because only human eyes can tell if it is an "unsafe" image. These poor guys spend the entire day seeing random and some screamingly disgusting images pop up on their screens every five seconds, eight hours a day. Turnover is very high. |
Ugh, I can imagine some of the things they must see. A high turnover is not surprising.
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09/16/2011 06:48:05 PM · #21 |
SUPER COOL.
I just used it to find my DPC image  on SOME OTHER PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE.
This is not going to end well... |
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09/16/2011 06:54:50 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by drewbixcube:
SUPER COOL.
I just used it to find my DPC image on SOME OTHER PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEBSITE.
This is not going to end well... |
You are in good company. Check out McKinney Photography's other amazing images, she seems to have stolen them all. Wow, that gal has some brass balls.
Message edited by author 2011-09-16 19:02:12. |
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09/16/2011 06:58:01 PM · #23 |
| Hum, I previously complained about not getting ripped off. Now with this fancy new search thing, I've found my images all over the place. :/ Me no like. |
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09/16/2011 07:00:53 PM · #24 |
I just got off the phone with her. She promised to pull my image or credit me for it.
We'll see.
It's not like I'm raking in piles of cash off my photography...but I don't want someone else doing it.
Her: "That site isn't up any more."
Me: "I'm looking at it right now..."
I guess I'm a decent enough photographer that someone else is claiming my work. Yea!...I think. |
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09/16/2011 07:01:50 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by drewbixcube:
Her: "That site isn't up any more."
Me: "I'm looking at it right now..."
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ha! too funny! |
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