You might get more results that are irrelevant, but it might also turn up some new results. Smaller sizes means that Google has to work harder to infer things like specific colors and patterns. Try creating these variations on your own and then doing a reverse image search to see if someone is using a Photoshopped version of your work. It could be cropped, black and white, rotated, or otherwise adjusted. You might find a manipulated version of your image out there.If you have other versions of your image, upload those to Google, too – especially if you’ve posted them online at some point.Here are some other alternative reverse image search tips: Google has a nice advanced image search page that lets you search by image size, file type, colors, region, and more. Once you go through these initial search results, you’ll want to try employing some advanced search techniques to help find any images that Google might have overlooked. Google will also try to determine a text description for your image – you can alter this in the search box if it’s slightly incorrect (in this case, “uestlove kit” instead of “questlove kit” or simply “questlove”).
This is where you can determine if anyone is using an unauthorized copy of your image. It’s also useful to always link back to the original source within syndicated articles.Once you’ve uploaded your photo or pasted your image URL into Google Image search, it will return a page that includes a collage of visually similar images, which might resemble yours but not be exact copies, and a list of webpages that contain matching images. Google can usually identify the original source. I wouldn’t worry too much unless the scraped content is affecting business. When your content is scraped, contacting the offender can yielded no response. If this happens, simply contact the rental site with your grievance and the duplicate photo will usually be removed. Usually they are competitors in your area, even on the same complex, so they are easy to spot.
Often photos are stolen by ‘lazy’ owners who copy photos off vacation rental portals and put them on their own advert. Rightly so, as photos are one of the key influencers in the holidaymakers decision process.
Thanks for the mention and Tiny Eye tip, looks useful.Ĭopyright infringement is annoying! Many vacation rental & cottage owners take a lot of time taking photos and even hire professional photographers. Let me know if you have any more tips on dealing with this issue.
Here’s another article that has some useful information on how to deal with content theft. On the continued topic of content theft, and if you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know I was particularly peeved yesterday to find one of my best Google rated articles appearing under a different name promoting an Orlando resort. You can input an image URL and it will deliver information on where an image came from, how it is being used, and if modified versions of the image exist. Tin Eye is a reverse image search engine. They mentioned that its possible to also check and see if other people are using your photos illegally and it reminded me of a link that was shared at the Blizzard Internet Google Boot Camp last week. As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about copyrighting images, I had a Tweet from Schofields in UK (they provide holiday home insurance for UK cottages & overseas property and blog on holiday letting, travel and property news).