'Drag and Drop' Google Reverse Image Search functionality

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

I found this by accident which means one of two things - It's not documented on any page I've used or I'm finding out something everyone else already knows. I bet it's the second but...

In Google image search when you hover over a thumbnail and it 'pops-up' a slightly larger version with details you can drag and drop that image back onto the search bar and a 'drop image here' message appears. Google will then display links to other sites with the same image as well as a similar images box.

Well done, and quite intuitive imo, I like it.

[deadsea]

The announced this two weeks ago at the same time they announced the pre-render technology for chrome.
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I didn't realize you could drop images from search results back into search, but that kinda makes sense too.

[goodroi]

Google's reverse image search failed to impress me. I did a quick test between Tineye and Google and surprisingly Tineye outperformed Google.

[netmeg]

We've actually used it to some good effect, finding competitors who have swiped some product pictures (in some cases with watermark - d'oh!) Tineye for whatever reasons didn't seem to find them.