image search on mobile device

[joyote]

is it possible to do an image search on google and/or tineye
using a mobile device? say, an ipad?
if so, can anyone provide instructions?
google & tineye, for either or both

[Kvothe]

Firefox for Android and Windows has an addon called Search by Image that will search for a web image using your choice of search engine. I just installed it from the Firefox addon library. It says it has a Chrome version. Here is their web page: https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image

[joyote]

thanks, Kvothe

that actually worked

[joyote]

some further research revealed the following...

Tineye could not be easier or simpler to use
Every image posted has a unique url. copy it
Go to tineye.com
Paste in the url. search
it’s that easy

Google reverse image search is more complicated
I got it to work, using the info posted by Kvothe, but...
I had to install Chrome
That interfered with other Google apps on my device
I am still thinking about how I might make it work
and if it’s worth it or not

[joyote]

I found an iOS app called DuckDuckGo

it allows Google search-by-image
without having to install Chrome
and, apparently, without interfering with other Google apps

a private browsing app,
it looks like it might be useful in other ways, as well

[Kvothe]

One last observation: I would always suggest using both Google and TinEye. I have found web images on one and not the other. I think there are sites or depths that one will crawl and not the other.

[abqspencer]

Yandex is another good one