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I have the URL for an image that I downloaded, and I'm trying to locate the site that linked to it.
E.g. http://12345.blob.windows.net/random/abc123.jpg
The image hosting site is windows.net.
Is there any way to find out which site owns this image? Is there a way to search sites by their HTML to find out who links to it?
Reverse Image search engines like TinEye can be used to find this.
"TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version"
I used one image url on it and results showed the 50 sites where it is used.
Google also has the ability to upload images as a search entry. Go to Google image search and click on the small photograph icon.
See also: http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/images/searchbyimage.html
Does the operator link from Google web search help?
link: The query link:URL shows pages that point to that URL. For example, to find pages that point to Google Guide’s home page, enter:
[ link:www.googleguide.com ]
Note: According to Google’s documentation, “you cannot combine a link: search with a regular keyword search.”
Also note that when you combine link: with another advanced operator, Google may not return all the pages that match. The following queries should return lots of results, as you can see if you remove the -site: term in each of these queries.
Find links to the Google home page not on Google’s own site.
[ link:www.google.com -site:google.com ]
Find links to the UK Owners Direct home page not on its own site.
[ link:www.www.ownersdirect.co.uk -site:ownersdirect.co.uk ]
