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Searching by an image rather than text to find where else it appears online.
Reverse image search lets you upload or link a picture and find other places it appears on the web. It is a cornerstone of media verification: if a "breaking" photo has actually been online for years, reverse search exposes it immediately.
Investigators run images across several engines because each indexes different parts of the web, and combine the results with metadata analysis and geolocation to establish an image's true origin, time, and place.
Intelligence produced by analysing imagery such as photographs and satellite pictures.
The disciplined process of confirming that information is genuine before relying on it.
The origin and history of a piece of content — where it first appeared and how it travelled.
Technology that identifies or matches a person from an image of their face.
Determining the precise real-world location where an image or video was captured.