We're going to be taking a look at some alternative reverse search engine options.
Now, as you saw before, Google does have a very good reverse image search.
And obviously Google has a huge database.
Now, with that said, even though Google has some great results for image searching it, it's not always
perfect.
And some of these other searches may come up with additional information that Google didn't have.
Or at least if nothing else, if I do a search in Google and I throw the same search in these other
other tools for for a reverse image search.
It can help validate the information that I'm looking for.
And I do find that important.
And also it only takes another minute or two to run versus these other tools and the chance of it finding
something else is is enough of a payoff for me to actually go ahead and do this.
That's why I do recommend this.
So the first one we're going to look at is Bing.
And this is Microsoft's version for a search engine.
So if you go to Bing.com, you'll see these three little icons here.
You can search by voice, you can search for using image.
Or we could do search the web.
So I'm just going to click the icon here and we can either drag and drop an image here or click browse.
We can paste in your image or a URL in here or take a photo.
I'm going to click on the Browse button here.
I'm going to go into my downloads folder and I'm just going to grab one of these images here.
Okay.
And we have this here.
So say we're doing we have a photo.
It's shows up in someone's social media feed and we're trying to determine where that is.
So feeding into Google is going to come up with some results.
I'm putting in a Bing and we can see different results here.
We can see Fortune 500 CEOs salaries.
Apple is no longer the richest company in the world, XO and so on.
So looking at all of these things, we can see that this is actually going to be Apple.
Apple, You know, we see all these different notations here.
We can.
And also the nice thing in here is we can see similar images and we could also see related searches,
which all come up with Apple.
So this is obviously Apple's campus or one of their major buildings.
So.
Again, it's going to operate pretty much just like Google.
But again, we do have an opportunity to potentially find more sources that Google didn't have.
Now, the next one we have here is Yandex, and Yandex is basically operates most of the same way.
We can put images, video, we can do searches.
And this is potentially better for people that are outside the US also.
Or if you're doing an investigation that involves someone outside the US.
Yandex is a pretty good one.
Now, I did hear back from some students that they said the if you run an image search on a person,
Yandex actually had better results than Google did.
So that is pretty interesting and something to take note of.
The other thing to take note of is I believe Yandex is still has servers in Russia.
So depending on what your criteria are, you do want to keep that in mind.
So I'm going to click on images here.
Okay.
And I'm going to click the little camera here, and that way we can either select a file, drag it,
or put the image address in.
So same thing I'm going to click on here.
I'm going to go to my downloads here.
I'm going to grab this.
Well, actually, let's grab this photo.
Okay.
And it doesn't look like it took it.
So we're going to try this again.
And here's our photo.
And we have our results here.
So the picture looks like, you know, I'll tell you what it thinks it looks like.
So it says Mortal Kombat.
Yes.
This is a picture of Scorpion.
And we have the various search search results, similar images for it.
And also we can go sites where the image was displayed.
So, again, did a pretty good job.
It actually found quite a bit of sites on on there for it for the correct one.
And as you see, the first few searches are in Russian.
So again, Yandex is, I believe, a Russian search engine.
So do keep that in mind if that's going to be a problem for you.
Now, the last one we're going to look at is ten Eye and it can be found at ten i.com.
And this one is designed for reverse image searches, as it says up here now.
China used to be really good, but when Google came along and Bing and everyone else, it.
I generally don't have great results with it, but I still do like to throw images in there just in
case.
Again, it finds stuff that other ones didn't.
So I'm going to click on the up arrow here.
We're going to go to our downloads and we're going to put in a photo here.
So let's grab this one here.
And Tinny is going to do the search.
We'll give that a moment to search through.
And here we go.
It found 27 results.
It searched over 43.3 billion images.
And then here's our results.
Here we have Reddit.
Forum threads.
And as we can see, that is the same image and we can see the various places that it did find an image
stack where it came up.
So again, these are alternatives to Google or tools to use in conjunction with Google Images.
And again, they're Bing, Yandex and Tinny.
So I hope you did find this useful.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see you in the next video.