4/30/2024 0 Comments Google reverse photo search![]() ![]() But all good fact-checkers know that headlines lie. Now we could stop here and just read the headline. That brings us to one of the original stories about this photo: So we click the link in the Reddit forum that says it’s real and get taken to an article where they actually talk to the photographer: But again, Reddit is not our source here–we need to go further upstream. When we go to the Reddit page we find there is an argument there over whether the photo is fake or not. Reddit is a site that is famous for sharing these sorts of photos, but it also has a reputation for having a user base that is very good at spotting fake photos. When we reverse search this image we find a bunch of pages that contain the photo, from a variety of sites. The appendix contains notes about translating these tactics to other browsers, and you can of course search the web for the Firefox and Safari corollaries.) Classes using this text are advised to use Chrome where possible. (For the sake of narrative simplicity we will show solutions in this text as they would be implemented in Chrome. A “context menu” will pop up and one of the options will be “Search Google for image.” If you’re using Google Chrome as a browser, put the cursor over the photo and right-click (control-click on a Mac). There’s no link here, so we’re going to use reverse image search. It’s from the Atlanta Federal Reserve, and it’s the Fed–not you want to evaluate.īut sometimes people will post a photo that has no source, as this person does here:įirst, is this actually a National Geographic photographer? More importantly, is this real? Is that lava so hot that it will literally set a metal tripod on fire? That seems weird, but we’re not lava experts. If you do follow that link, the chart is there, with a bunch more information about the data behind it and how it was produced. Links are usually the last part of a tweet. For instance, take the chart in this tweet from Twitter user Should you evaluate it it by figuring out who is? – same as Google Reverse Image Search, seems to be a more direct link & possibly even easier.Most of the time finding the origin of an image on Twitter is easy.In doing a little research for this post, I found these other helpful & related resources that you might enjoy: There are lots of times my students and I wonder, “What IS that?” ( and…umm…sometimes it might be better if we don’t know…you know how THAT is, right?) Google Reverse Image Search gives us a fun and cool way to do a little investigating, a little research, a little debating, and a little deducing to find answers to some of our most burning questions! How cool is that? I narrowed it down until I surmised that my little flower was – a periwinkle! Google found “visually similar images” for me, and that 4th one on the top is pretty much an exact match, so I clicked on it. “Oh, joy”, I thought – Google just let me know that this thing was – a flower? Hmmmmphh….I almost thought I had wasted my time, until I scrolled down JUST a few inches and found this:Īaaah….thanks Google! Now we’re talking. (I had saved the photo to my laptop, so it was easy to upload.)Īfter I uploaded the file and clicked the little “search” magnifying glass, this is what I got: Notice the little black camera in the search bar, and when I hovered over it, it says “Search By Image”. I started at the URL shown below, which is the site for Google Images. I had taken a picture, and tonight I used Google Reverse Image Search to figure out what they were! A few weeks ago, I had gone for a walk and noticed these beautiful little purple flowers. Tonight, I used it to satisfy my curiosity. I’ll bet you can come up with great ways to use it with students. TBH, I had no idea what he was talking about, so I made it a point to – well – Google it! It’s another super-cool, super-easy way to WOW your friends and perhaps look like a genius from time to time. ![]() He admitted that he just used Google Reverse Image Search. My buddy Kevin came back almost instantly with the name and location of the bridge, and I was shocked! I assumed he was familiar with the area. I snapped an iPhone photo from the passenger seat, and quickly posted it to Facebook with the caption, “Who knows where I am?” It was nighttime, and we were driving over a bridge that was lit up and interesting – and I thought was pretty. Last summer, I was traveling through New England with my family. I learned about this in the strangest way.
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