▶ How to search Google with a photo from your mobile

Have you ever received a photo on your mobile that you want to know its origin? This article will be your guide to know how to search Google with a photo from your mobile This type of reverse search, in which we are the ones who provide the photo and Google information is one of the most unknown and at the same time interesting functions of the search engine.

Google: search by image

This is the process to correctly use this function of Google: search by image will allow us to obtain the information on the web about what appears in our photos.In order to quickly search for an image that we have on our mobile, we will need to have the Google application downloaded.

Once we have it, we just have to open it and click on the icon with a camera that we will find on the right side of the search box (see image). Then by default our camera will open through Google Lens. To choose a photograph that has already been taken, we can access our gallery by clicking on the images icon on the left in a black circle.

By clicking there, we can choose the photo we want from our image gallery and select it. Finally, we scroll down and Google will offer us other similar images and the information that is available on the web about what we have photographed. Keep in mind that with certain uses of this reverse search (for example, to detect a possible catfish in networks) the results can be quite imprecise since the Results are based on images that Google does have access to.

images.google.com on Android

Another option to search for images is by directly accessing images.google.com on Android This process is somewhat longer than the previous one, since through this address we will not find the camera icon to be able to upload the photo we want to search for.

To be able to do the search, we will need to have the URL of the search first, which implies a few extra steps. When we see an image that we want to search for, we click on it and click on 'Open in a new tab'. Then, click on the icon with the three dots in the upper right and choose 'Share'. There we will find the option 'Copy link', which we can paste into images.google.com.

As you can see, this process can be much easier by doing the search from the Google application for Android or choosing the option 'Search with Google Lens' by clicking on the image in question.Google Lens is an alternative that is becoming increasingly popular on Android phones and is much more practical for searching for an image.

How Google image recognition works

It's natural that many questions arise about how Google's image recognition works, especially in terms of privacy. Google's reverse search allows us to upload an image and the search engine will offer us other related images and information that will allow us to know who is that famous person whose name we do not remember or what is the name of a plant that we have found in nature.

Google already specified in a video how the process to perform these reverse searches works. The search engine takes the image that we have provided and analyzes its distinctive points, colors, lines and textures, comparing it with the image bank that Google has at its disposal to offer that related information.In short, what is analyzed are the pixels of the images, and not specific facial features,so its effectiveness is far from that of a program dedicated exclusively to facial recognition.