TinEye

Performing a reverse image search can be useful in many ways. Individuals can search on the pictures of people they are chatting with online, creatives can search their own photos to see if they are being illegally used, and SEO professionals can use the website to conduct image audits. TinEye accommodates all of these scenarios and more with a powerful image search engine. More than 14 billion images are indexed by TinEye. The TinEye website is free for anyone to use. Those willing to register a free account can save their old searches. Users are allowed to perform up to 150 searches per week when they create an account. Convenient extensions for popular browsers like Chrome and Firefox make the process of searching images even easier. If images are returned in a search, visitors can compare the returned images to the original. This feature is very useful in pinpointing any modifications that may have been made to images. Sometimes, those who grab images from the Internet will make small changes in the hopes that theft of intellectual property won't be discovered. By using a switching tab, users can go back and forth between the original image and the one returned by TinEye. There are some negatives associated with TinEye. The biggest of these is that the service will not specifically identify people in photos. It only returns a specific match. There is also an upload limit of 20MB, but this should cover almost any image an individual wishes to search. The paid version of the program is very expensive. Plans begin at $200 per year and offer more searches. It would also be helpful if this website allowed keyword searches.