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This page serves as a starting guide into reverse image search and other advanced image searching techniques.

The main purpose of reverse image searching is to find the source or a higher quality version of an image on the Internet. For more help [textgoeshere]

== Reverse image search ==

The tools that we'll use in this guide are called '''CBIR engines'''. To use them we will give them a low quality image as an input, and they will return us a list of similar images found on the Internet with a variety of resolutions.

=== Dupli Checker ===
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The first and easiest engine that we will use is [https://www.duplichecker.com/reverse-image-search.php Dupli Checker]. This online free tool searches your image in 6 diferent CBIR engines and redirects you to the results page of each engine.

To use the tool (sketch): 

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  <li style="margin-top: 15px;">Navigate to: [https://www.duplichecker.com/reverse-image-search.php https://www.duplichecker.com/&#8203;reverse-image-search.php]<br><small>'''''Note:''' You can easily find this site by searching "reverse image search" on Google.''</small></li>
  <li style="margin-top: 20px;">Upload / paste the image url on the tool and click on "Search Similar Image".</li>
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  <li style="margin-top: 10px;">Click on [[File:Advanced image search manual - Button 1.png|120px|link=]]</li>
  <li style="margin-top: 10px;">Click on each engine that you want to use. In this case I'll first use Google Lens. Note that the last two tools are currently not working (just on Dupli Checker).</li>
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  <li style="margin-top: 40px;">A new tab will open up with similar results. Note that to find the exact or a really similar image we'll have to click on "Find image source" (only with Google Lens).</li>
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  <li style="margin-top: 40px;">On the images list I'll check if a higher resolution is avaliable. I'll save the sources of the ones that I'm interested in and I'll move to the next engine from Dupli Checker to see if I find anything better.<br><small>'''''Note:''' If you find a less cropped image, you can use it to repeat the search and find even better results.''</small></li>
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This is the easiest, fastest and most automatic way to reverse image search. If this doesn't work for your image, we'll go more in deep in the following section.
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===Other CBIR engines===

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==Broken links and lost media==

===Wayback Machine===
Urls to use:
[https://web.archive.org/web/20150905053738/https://splatoon.nintendo.com/ splatoon.nintendo.com], 
[https://web.archive.org/web/20150905103947im_/https://splatoon.nintendo.com/assets/img/headings/squid-lab-badge@2x.png?1431924428 direct image link]

===Archive Today===

===Other archives===

===Google cached links===
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==Tips and tricks==
===Obtaining high quality images (WiP)===

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* {{NES}} [https://www.nintendo.com/ Nintendo] (cloudinary): https://cloudinary.com/documentation/transformation_reference -> f_png,fl_preserve_transparency,q_auto:best
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* {{TWI}} [https://x.com Twitter (X)]: "orig trick".

* {{TBR}} [https://www.tumblr.com Tumblr]: "reblog and export trick".
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Once this process is done Tumblr should send you an automatic email once the content is ready to be downloaded.

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===Sanitizing your links (WiP)===
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