Websites that use my photo’s – Neil Baldwin's blog : Warning contains walking, technology, photography, holidays.

I was at a loose end and decided it would be interesting to see if any of my photo’s from Flickr appear on websites other than my own, i.e. were being used without my permission. It turns out is is pretty easy to check using Google image search. All you need to do is grab the URL of the image you want to search for then click on the camera in the image search box paste the URL and Google will return information about the image; whether it is appears elsewhere and images that are similar.

First find your image, then (in Flickr) click on the download icon then right click on the link to the original and select “copy link address”.

The go to Google image search click on the camera icon (which is search by image) and paste in the URL you copied in the previous step and click on the Search by image button.

Google will return the search results. In the example below you can see that if found no other sizes of the image, but was able to find matching images. In this case the matching images are not the same image they are photo’s taken from the same spot but on different days.

At the bottom of the search results you get the opportunity to see visually similar images, in this case the images all have grass at the bottom, sometimes a building in the middle and all have a blue sky with white clouds.

On Page two of the search results I noticed that the image was mine.

Here is the site http://www.viajesyvacaciones.es/castillo-highclere-downton-abbey/castillo-downton-abbey/ showing my picture. It is on a page with post in Spanish about a visit to Highclere castle (Downton Abbey) they give credit to a couple of Flickr users but not me!