To help users find high-quality information about what they see online, Google has rolled out the “About this image” fact-check tool to English language users globally in Search.According to the tech giant, the tool will give people an easy way to check the credibility and context of images they see online.
With this tool, users will get to discover an image’s history, metadata and the context users used it with on different sites.
“You can access this tool by clicking on the three dots on an image in Google Images results, or by clicking ‘more about this page’ in the About this result tool on search results,” Google said in a blogpost on Wednesday.
An image’s history will allow users to see when an image or similar images may have first been seen by Google Search, and whether it was previously published much earlier on other webpages.
With an image’s metadata, users will be able to see metadata — when available — that image creators and publishers have added to an image, including fields that may indicate that it has been generated or enhanced by AI.
Moreover, users can see how an image is used on other pages, and what other sources, like news and fact-checking sites, have to say about it.