Searching for photos on the web for your blog can sometimes be a nightmare. More often than not you find a perfect picture to use, but can't work out who owns the rights to the picture, or whether you are free to use the photo for commercial use. This used to happen to me loads and frustrated the hell out of me. Until one day I found this awesome little website that greatly reduced my suffering. The website allows you to search the internet for other websites where an image has already been used.
Once you find the image you require, simply copy the image web address and paste it into the search tool. The site will then search for that image on the web and return to you every location it can find with that image. This will greatly help you to work out whether the image can be used for commercial purposes and sometimes even who the owner of the image is too.
Click here to see Image search tool!
Why not give it a go now! Find any image on the web, copy and paste the web address into the tool and search! You'll be pleasantly surprised at the end results!
Another really useful aspect of the tool is that the pictures it returns will be of various quality and size. So if your original image is to small to use, chances are there maybe a more suitable image out there instead! I absolutely love this tool and highly recommend that the rest of you save this as one of your favourites.
This is also a great tool to work out whether other people are using your material without your permission. If you are a photographer and want to check whether one of your images has been used without your knowledge, you can also upload the image to the tool from your computer instead. The search engine will then locate any websites that are using the image you uploaded.
Another useful tip! Once you start using this tool regularly you will start to find a lot more cool websites that offer free public domain photos for commercial use! Be sure to keep saving these web address's for future searches.
