Google Image Search vs Auto ID experiment

[Matt Bacon]

Just trying this out. I want to see how clever GIS actually is...

bestest,

M.

[Matt Bacon]

That's interesting. It hasn't managed to find it, even when I upload the original image. It looks like it takes some kind of "fingerprint" of the image which is independent of size, so it can find other versions of the exact same image, and then presumably parses the text around all of the other instances of the same image before doing a text search to find other pictures of the same thing. It certainly seems to be confused by a scanned-in picture that hasn't been sourced from on the web...

I don't mind having a go at Auto ID for a while using images scanned from my library...

bestest,

M.

[peteski]

Last night I tried the Google image search and it wasn't as good (or smart) as I expected based on what I read here. It does rely on the file name (or asks for some additional hints).

[Harry P.]

GIS only works on an image that exists on the internet somewhere. If you scan an image out of a book and post it, for example, and try to find it using GIS, obviously GIS won't work.

But the way I had been doing Auto ID and ROM was using images I found online... which of course made finding the answer a no-brainer if one wanted to let google do the work.

[sjordan2]

GIS only works on an image that exists on the internet somewhere. If you scan an image out of a book and post it, for example, and try to find it using GIS, obviously GIS won't work.

But the way I had been doing Auto ID and ROM was using images I found online... which of course made finding the answer a no-brainer if one wanted to let google do the work.

So, how does one upload an image to Google for searching? I have tons of downloaded images where I've changed the file names, but sometimes want to know where I got them.

Edited December 14, 2015 by sjordan2

[otherunicorn]

Select the "images" option, then click on the camera icon in the search bar.

[Art Anderson]

So, how does one upload an image to Google for searching? I have tons of downloaded images where I've changed the file names, but sometimes want to know where I got them.

Simple--the image has to be posted on a website for Google's Search Engine to find it.  Many of the photo's I have on Fotki, for example, show up in a Google Image Search if I "Google" under the same car name.

Art