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Has anyone found a good alternative to Google Lens for (reverse) image search? (lemmy.world)
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Looking for a non-Google-based way to identify things from photos, like the species of a tree I’m looking at or the purpose of an object I’m not familiar with

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[–] Scruffy1358@infosec.pub 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I've used https://tineye.com/ for several years.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

and I'm sure I used it well before any other and near a decade before Google Lense / reverse image search...

[–] flameleaf@ani.social 1 points 1 week ago

I was gonna say that. Memory's fuzzy, but I do remember using TinEye before Google added the reverse image search feature.

[–] ladybugs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you!

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

For identifying plants and animals, there’s an app called inaturalist. If you have an iPhone, supposedly you can use built-in tools in the photos app to analyze images in the current version of iOS.

https://www.inaturalist.org/

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/identify-objects-in-your-photos-and-videos-iph21c29a1cf/ios

[–] ladybugs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks!

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And the Google song recognition tbh

[–] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Audire

Uses Shazam API if that matters to you

[–] Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Imgops.com/upload

From there you can hit tineye, yandex, google, and 🤮bing simultaneously. The order I mentioned those in is the order in which I try them depending on whether I'm getting my results

[–] ladybugs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Interesting, thanks!