The article talks about how to search the Internet for photography, what services are suitable for this, and what they can do.
The heyday of digital technology
Nowadays, you will not surprise anyone with various digital technologies for a long time. What a few years ago seemed fantastic, now comes to life, albeit sometimes in the form of isolated concepts. And not all ideas are successful. But older people remember very well those times when the Internet was terribly expensive, slow, and not everyone could afford it. However, like a regular computer. And, by the way, due to the slow loading of pages, many generally turned off image display in the browser. It was unlikely that they could imagine that one day a convenient feature would be created such as searching the Internet for photographs. So how does it work and what features does it even have? This we will understand.
Search
Like any search for information on the Internet, you should not expect something ideal and absolutely exactly corresponding from such systems - it all depends on the search query, already indexed images, their quality and much more. But still the search on the Internet for photography works pretty well. But how is it arranged?
In simple terms, search engines are gradually indexing new content that appears on the Internet, and supply it with appropriate tags, which also depend on the popularity of search queries and the content itself. In simple terms, it’s much easier to find some popular picture on the Internet than a personal photo uploaded to a little-known resource a long time ago. But how to still search the Internet for photographs?
Practice
No additional software should be downloaded and installed; the search works wonderfully with standard browser tools in popular search engines. Here it is worth making a reservation: you can search for photos on the Internet in two ways - either based on the downloaded image, or without it, using only the description in the appropriate field.
This opportunity is provided by all major search engines, for example, Yandex and Google. Let's start with the first one. To do this, go to https://yandex.ru/images/ and select the download icon of the desired photo at the top left, based on which similar photos will be searched on the Internet. Yes, that's right, because if this photo is unique, it is not found anywhere else on the Internet or simply not indexed, the system will display images similar to it. But sometimes this is exactly what you need.
In the case of Google, everything is very similar. We go to the address https://www.google.com/imghp and then enter a description of the image or download it from a computer, and soon enjoy the results.
Benefit
In addition to the obvious convenience, in such systems there is another useful property, this recognition of what is on the image. For example, if you upload a photo of an actor from a movie whose name you can’t remember, the search engine will almost certainly correctly identify it.
Also, various browsers have convenient quick search functions. In Yandex.Browser and Google Chrome, for example, you just need to click on the photo you are interested in on the Internet and select "Find Image ...".
Software
You can often come across the question of whether there is a separate program for searching photos on the Internet. Unfortunately, this is not yet, and this is not just. Such searches require tremendous processing power, which even the most powerful home computer can not handle.
So we figured out how to search for similar images on the Internet. As you can see, there is nothing complicated about this.