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No not Google 🙂
I have a thumbnail of a picture I'd like to use as a desktop wallpaper but it is overlaid with a company logo. I am certain that the original picture without the logo is out there somewhere.
What I would like to do is upload the thumbnail to a search engine and then 'find similar images'
Is this asking too much?
You can upload an image into Google image search and it'll look for similar images.
ask the company where they got it?
No not Google
Why not? It can do this.
Weren't Microsoft working on something like this that completely flopped?
There was something though. Not by Microsoft. Where you could upload exif data (which is additional info attached to digital images), and it would search the web for that image. It would only find identical copies I'm guessing, but if you can find the thumbnail, surely you can find the original... Unless you have re-saved it yourself, changing the exif data.
I can't for the life of me remember what it was called though.
It's popular amongst photographers for catching people out using their images without permission.
I think the guys are right actually. Google does actually do it. So forget my long winded answer.....apparently we've moved on 🙂
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I did try Google but it found 2 billion images of a similar colour and contrast and sadly I don't have time to look through all of them.
Just wondered if there was an image search engine that was a bit smarter 😕
Google alternative:
[url= http://www.tineye.com/ ]http://www.tineye.com/[/url]
I have a thumbnail of a picture I'd like to use as a desktop wallpaper but it is overlaid with a company logo.
Maybe ask the company? They probably own the copyright.
I'm impressed with the tineye.com results.