Technology Tips: Using Google's Search-by-Image Option*

For this Tech Tip assignment, you will learn how to "search by image" so that you can identify the image, find a useful webpage to use as a reference, and also find different sizes for the image (very helpful if you want to find a larger version of an image to use in your blog post or webpage).

Step One: Choose your "mystery images." Pick FOUR of these images to work on; just drag-and-drop the image you want to work on to your desktop, or else save the image to your computer; depending on what browser you use, you might be able to right-mouse click and choose the option "Search Google for this image." 

Step Two: Go to Image Search. You can find a link to Google Image Search from the main Google.com Search page (just look in the upper left-hand corner), or you can go directly to Google Image Search at Images.Google.Com. Now drag-and-drop the image file you chose into the search box, or you can click on the little camera icon and then upload the image:

Step Three: View results. You should see search results that will let you find different sizes of that same image file (so you can choose a larger file size if you want - and larger images are definitely better!), and it should also point you to various informative webpages to help you identify the image. The best is a page at Wikipedia or at some other reliable, stable online reference site. Are you able to find out where each image comes from and learn something useful about the image? By practicing on four images, you should become an expert in Google reverse-image-search!

Finishing Up. If you are feeling confident in using Google reverse-image-search, you're done! Just don't forget to do the Declaration.