Photographers can use ‘search by image’ feature to know about other websites that are using their photographs without permission. Journalists can use the reverse search option to find the original source of an image or to know the approximate date when a picture was first published on the Internet. Upload a photograph from your desktop to Google Images and it will show you related images used on other websites and also different sizes of the same photo almost instantly. Google Reverse Image Search helps you quickly discover visually similar images from around the web.
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How to do Reverse Image Search on your Mobile Phone Next, click the “Show Matching Images” button and it will send your photo into Google’s image database and show visually similar photos. Just click the “Upload Image” button and choose an image from the photo gallery of your mobile phone.
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With Reverse Photos, you can perform reverse image searches on Android and iPhone in few easy steps. Thus, if a friend has sent you a forwarded image on WhatsApp or Facebook that you’d like to verify, you’ll have to first transfer the photograph to a desktop and then perform a reverse image search. Well, if anyone fancies a long and laborious task, you could create a lot of websites with images of girls using computers labeled and tagged correctly and linking to other important websites to increase their ranking on the algorithm.Google’s search by image feature is currently available for desktops and not your iPad or mobile phone. So, how do we change the algorithm, and get it to work in a better and more accurate way? For example, when I search stock image sites we don't have the same problem: By acknowledging the societal problem, and building it into our solution we sparked a change and challenged the view that ICT is the preserve of male students in Zimbabwe’s higher education system. This allowed female students to gain basic ICT skills which would provide them with better employment opportunities in the future and more options for further study. We faced this societal issue by creating female-only labs, a space designed for the 51% of women enrolled at the university. This was thought to be because of 'socialized' inequality, where female students felt they didn't have as much right to access the labs as the male students. We've tackled gender bias before in our work with the University of Zimbabwe, where it was found that although there was equal access, the percentage of male to female students using the university’s ICT labs was 87% male to 13% female (despite an almost equal enrolment of 51% women in comparison to 49% men). Part of this might be that these websites don't have a lot of images available, but more likely it's to do with the entrenched gender stereotypes we see in society today.
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Given that the search engine results are based on the PageRank Algorithm, this means that for these images to appear people are linking more frequently to these stereotypical pink computers than to positive web pages such as Stemettes, Code First: Girls, Girls who Code and many other wonderful organizations which promote equality in the tech sector. This isn't the first time Google's search algorithm has had an issue with the way it identifies images, back in 2015 Jacky Alciné pointed out Google Photos were classifying his black friends as “gorillas.” Most disturbingly there is a slide from a powerpoint which says 'Computers are not for girls'. However, when searching 'Computers for Girls' not only are there no children to be seen, we are overwhelmed with a sea of pink. The 'Computers for Boys' search results are mostly some standard stock images of children using computers, looking happy and with relatively good diversity. This was very much in my mind when this morning, a colleague showed me what happens when you google image search 'Computers for Boys' vs 'Computers for Girls' He obviously hadn't read the statistic accompanying the title of the talk, that only 17% of employees in UK tech sector are women. Just that morning while networking with fellow attendees, I was informed that there was no need for there to be the Women in Information Technology discussion later in the day as "It's nothing new is it, women have been in tech for ages".
This even came to a head at the Public Sector ICT summit where Kit Collingwood, Deputy Director Universal Credit, Department for Work and Pensions brought up the issue that she was the only woman booked on the panel and made the firm statement she wouldn't attend an event again where she was the only woman on the panel. At Computer Aid we attend events from all aspects of the IT world, and this year, in particular, there has been a focus on gender equality and diversifying the speakers who are booked.
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