[nudieman]

Originally Posted by flanker7

In my own searches, I've been able to work out a couple tools to help weed out at least some of the false leads to trace pictures back to original sources, or at least those only a couple degrees of separation away from the original. You may already be using them, but if not...

1. When you do a reverse image search, choose the option to show all the photo sizes. Typically, the largest sizes came earlier, and since tumblr uses uniform sizing, that alone can weed out all the tumblr hits.

2. Narrowing down the time it was posted. Using the "custom range" option on the "time" search tool, you can eliminate a lot of the reblogging as well. If a pic is from the 2012 WNBR, then limit the search range to maybe just the summer of 2012. Or, if you don't know the range, just keep pushing it back earlier and earlier until you get a workable number of results. Oftentimes a photo will exist on the net for a couple years before it blows up on tumblr. Once you find that horizon, you've eliminated a ton of false leads.

By no means a magic bullet, but I just thought I'd throw in my two cents.

That reverse image search is pretty awesome! thanks!!