TinEye for Opera

One of the most annoying things that happen when surfing the web is to stumble upon an interesting image that has no source or backstory, and get curious about where the pic came from. Sometimes, Google’s reverse search tool fails to bring you relevant results, so the curiosity grows. Luckily, TinEye Reverse Image Search for Opera, a nifty add-on — can improve the results you get after reverse searching a picture.

After you install the extension, restart your browser to avoid any issues, just in case. The context menu will get another entry after installation, one that will help you find the desired images.

Search Page On TinEye is the new context menu element, and upon clicking it, you will be redirected to the add-on’s website to see the results.

If you’d like to customize the process a bit, open the options menu and see if any of the provided settings suit you. From this menu, you can change the sorting order and how the tabs are opened.

The Sort Order option lets you arrange the resulted images after their upload date, size, activity, and similarities. As for the Open Searches preference, you can choose to execute the search in the current tab, or in the background/foreground.

What differentiates TinEye from other reverse search services is the image identification technology. To summarize, the add-on does not take into consideration keywords or watermarks when searching for an image, but it creates a digital signature that gets compared to stored images from a dedicated database. In short, the results are more accurate, and even if the image you are searching after is altered (cropped, resized, edited), you’ll still get a match.

In conclusion, TinEye Reverse Image Search can save you a lot of time spent manually searching web for specific images. The operation couldn’t be easier, as all you have to do is to open the context menu and start the search.