OK I know you are supposed to say "do a web search" not "Google". TinEye is an amazing program where you can upload an image to the TinEye site and find any other sites on the W.W.W. where a version of that image is used. It does not even have to be that close to the original: a search for an image of Mona Lisa might return the Mr. Bean version for instance.
The legal implications of this are quite wide: now people will be able to spot if you are using their images illegally on a website for instance. Unfortunately nobody has developed a verb "to Tin-eye" otherwise I would be able to say: "off you go, start Tin-eyeing fast!"
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