How to Reverse Video Search on Google or Using Third-Party Tools

Joshua Hill

Updated on 2020-11-20

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Part 1: What is a Reverse Video Search?

Part 2: Why is Reverse Video Search Important?

1. The feature helps you in browsing for copyright content and protect you from scams and frauds.
2. It enables you to identify any object or image within your video.
3. It discovers and identifies any location to complete a certain video clip.
4. The tool is impressive in finding the online source of an image or video.
5. It allows you to check the authenticity of an unidentified image or video uploaded on the social media platform.

Part 3: How to Reverse Video Search on Google?

How to Reverse Video Search Google on PC/Mac

1. Save some screenshots of the video that you want to search on the Google search engine.
2. Go to Google images homepage at the right corner of the page.

3. Click on the “camera icon” in Google images.

   
4. Choose an image from the file storage.
5. Drag the image in the window.

6. Even if you have the URL link of the images you can copy-paste it in the windows to start your search.

   
7. To further, boost the results you can also add keywords in your search.

8. Google will show you precise YouTube results for your search.

   

How to reverse video search Google on phones

1. Open Google in the Chrome Browser.
2. From the taskbar select the three doted option.

3. Select the “Request desktop site” from the menu that will make the camera icon to appear in the search bar.

   
4. Now you can either upload the image from your camera roll or copy-paste the URL of the desired image.

Part 4: How to Reverse Search Video with Third-party Tools?

Berify

• It searches over 800 images to give you the exact as well as similar images and videos.
• With Berify you can import or upload images directly from the social media accounts, Flickr and Dropbox without the need to download it first.
• As compared to other search tools, Berify uses thumbnails to assist a user in finding a stolen video.
• Berify saves you from the everyday hassle of searching and protecting your work from being copied as it does a manual search on a daily basis and emails you in case your content is being stolen.

How to do a reverse video search using Berify

1. Go to Berify.com

   
2. Upload images into the search bar. Berify free version allows you to add 5 pictures in the search option.
3. Berify will run the images through the database and will then display the exact or similar images for you.

4. Customize your search by adding frequency and tags.

   

TinEye

• It is easy to use.
• Allows you to track down copyrighted content and gives an extension of Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
• Even a modified image can be traced using TinEye.
• With the free version of this research tool, you can keep a tab on your earlier searches.
• The free version permits you to search 150 images in a week.
• The colour engine technology lets you search for a specific colour scheme and provides you with more than 20 million creative images from Flickr.

How to reverse video search using TinEye

1. Take screenshots of the video you want to search.

2. Open website TinEye.com.

   
3. Upload the image or copy-paste the URL of the image in the search bar.
4. TinEye will display results for your search.

Shutterstock

• Filtering out videos from the searched result is really easy.
• It utilizes neural networks and machine learning to make searching for a video more efficient and productive.
• You can choose from the tags to have an in-depth search.

How to reverse video search using Shutterstock

1. Go to the main page of Shutterstock.

   
2. Tap the camera icon in the search bar.
3. Upload your image or copy the URL of the image in the search bar.
4. The related image will be shown.

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