Can you reverse image search on iPhone?

How do I Search Google using a picture in iPhone?

I'm very new to iPhone development, and I was wondering if I could use Google Image Search functionality of the default web browser (or Safari) on my iPhone to search and display image of an item that's in the URL. Example is, I'm using the web browser to go to and when I want to search for a book on Amazon, I can do it easily from Google Book Search and enter: "name of book" into the search box.

I'd really like to be able to do this inside an iPhone app, by entering (for example) pictures of "a person". After searching for this picture of this person (and I would use the same name as I would search Amazon), then the application should display their name. How can this be done?
Please let me know any links or things you think will be helpful to research this type of problem. Thank you.

Thanks. Michael. You have to use iOS 4.1 for full-Screen search and it will come free on all new 3GS's If you are having problems installing SDK's here's how to get it working! Using NSURL did not work for me and I also tried the code on JotPad and it didn't work for me. But NSString did work so I have a feeling that the problem was in the way I was querying with NSURL. So for others looking for answers, you may need to try NSString's stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding method. Also remember that search methods are case sensitive.

Can you reverse image search on iPhone?

A user posted the following comment about using the web based tool to see an image of a product: "It was fun and I am surprised at how much you can get from a pic of a bottle. I used this and discovered that we need a new bottle for a popular drink which will be in stores later this month."

I have no idea what he is talking about since I never used it. If anyone else has, please share your experience with me. Thanks!

Re: Can you reverse image search on iPhone? Thanks to all for the suggestions. Here's what I found. All images that I wanted to remove were removed. If I find any hidden files or folders (in case they are deleted from photo library) that may have been added through web, please let me know.

As mentioned in my original post, I downloaded an image from a camera via Camera Roll, not through the web tool. I was using the web tool to try to locate an image that I thought was on my iPhone as part of a product page. When I uploaded the image (with a location in Safari) and clicked the "Use this Photo" button, the image did appear on my iPhone, but there was a note that there was also a hidden file with the name ".DSStore" within the "Camera Roll". When I looked inside the ".DSStore", I saw that the image I had been searching for was actually inside. I thought that if I didn't use the web tool to access the image, it wouldn't be uploaded.

The website "What The Web Can Find You". Www.whatthewebcanfindyou.com/ is worth checking out. I also found another website "Find My Photos" that is very good for finding images on a computer.findmyphotos.org.

Also, you may want to download ImageShack (free) software on your PC that allows you to easily download images from other users, such as www.imageshack.

Originally Posted by cscw123

How do you Search Google with a picture?

Google Images?

Google Search? What is Searching using pictures in Google.com - The Internet Explorer? How to search for anything? - How do you search Google images. Where did the question "how to search for anything" come from? Do I just type a text, and that's how I can find things on the internet? - That's all I know. If I type google search "how to search for anything" - What am I looking for? Google Search with Pictures - How do I search a picture, and what image file format? You typed the question into Google. You must be logged into Google.com and using the "Google Image Search". See how you can use it to search for pictures, movies, and music.

The Searching Google Images by Google. Here are the different ways that you can use Google.com - How to get started You are at the top of your screen. How do you get to the top of the screen? The top row of Google.com is where you will find the answers to your questions.

You can click in the top row to make a choice. Use the choices on the top row to choose "what you want to search" for. You use the choices on the top row. It is similar to the way you would open an HTML web page in Microsoft Internet Explorer.com - How to choose what you want to Search for.

How do you Search for a Picture in Google. The choices that you can choose from. Choose "Image". You can choose "Image" or "Image Search". Click on the Image or Image Search link. If you want to search for a picture, click on the image that you want to search for. You are shown images of the thing that you clicked on. How do you Search for a movie in Google. How to Search for movies in Google.com To start, click in the top row to select what you want to search for. Choose "Movies". You can choose "Movies" or "Movie Search". Click on the Movies or Movie Search link.

How to look up a picture on iPhone?

You can search on Google.

But here, in this article, I will tell you how to search on iPhone and find a picture.

You don't have to download any application for this. This is only by iOS.

The trick here is: 1) Install a simple browser (Firefox, Google Chrome) in your iPhone. 2) Open that URL in a simple browser. 3) Type the url of the picture you want to search, and it will open that picture in iPhone. Also, read how to search for your email. To know more on Searching on the iPhone, check out this link: You can also check our other post like search a name on your facebook. How to search a picture on Facebook. And how to read Email From iPhone.