Search by video: upload a clip and the web is searched using frames extracted from it.
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Your full video stays in your browser. We extract a small number of frames locally and send only those frames for web matching.
To search by video means to use the clip itself as the search query. You upload a file from your device, a few frames are sampled automatically in your browser, and each frame is matched against the public web index. Pages that contain the same or a very similar image come back as results.
Search by video is the practical option when words fail. An unlabeled clip, a repost with no credit, footage whose title you never knew — none of that matters, because the query is the imagery itself, not a description of it.
The search by video tool on this page needs an MP4 or WebM file up to 100 MB and 10 minutes. No account, no video URL, no installation — the sections below explain how the matching works and how to read what comes back.
Words only reach pages that describe the clip the same way you do. Search by video removes that guesswork: it matches pixels, so it finds pages that reuse the footage even when their titles, captions and hashtags have nothing in common with yours.
Each frame is checked independently, so a search by video covers the whole timeline of the clip. A page that shows only a short excerpt still surfaces when that excerpt overlaps one of the sampled frames.
An MP4 or WebM file, straight from your device — up to 100 MB and up to 10 minutes long. The file must be decodable by your browser, because the frames for the search by video are extracted locally and nothing is converted on a server. MOV, AVI and MKV containers are therefore not guaranteed to work.
Pick the most distinctive part of the clip. A search by video samples five frames from wherever the clip starts and ends, so trimming to the scene with the clearest subject — a face, a logo, an unusual backdrop — raises the match rate noticeably.
Avoid black frames, transitions and pure-motion scenes. They carry almost no visual information, and a search by video that samples them mostly returns noise or nothing. Content with text on screen is the strongest signal of all, because indexed pages usually keep overlays intact.
And remember that the search by video sees the public web index only — pages behind logins, private accounts and freshly posted videos are invisible to any matcher, no matter how distinctive your frames are.
Upload your video. Pick an MP4 or WebM file up to 100 MB and 10 minutes. It opens locally in your browser — nothing is sent yet.
Frames are extracted locally. Five compressed frames are sampled across the clip, skipping black frames, intros and credits so the search by video matches real content.
The web is searched for each frame. Hits are combined and deduplicated into one ranked list of matching pages you can open directly.
Every result is a public webpage where at least one sampled frame — or a very similar image — appears. Treat results as possible sources: originals, reposts or pages quoting the footage are all possible, and none is labeled a verified original.
Results show how many sampled frames matched. More matched frames usually means a stronger lead; a single-frame hit can be a similar-looking scene rather than the same footage.
Matching cannot prove which page uploaded first. Indexing delays hide new pages, and a repost can be indexed before the original. Compare dates on the matching pages before concluding anything about priority.
Your full video stays in your browser — it is never uploaded. To search by video, the tool extracts a handful of frames locally and sends only those compressed frames for web matching; nothing is stored, frame data is discarded when the search completes, and file names are never logged.
Yes. Search by video is exactly that: your clip becomes the query. Frames sampled from the video are matched against public web imagery, and the pages containing matches are returned as a ranked list you can open. It is the closest thing to a visual Ctrl+F for the public web.
No. The video file stays in your browser the whole time. A search by video sends only a few small, compressed frames for matching, and even those are discarded once the results are back.
Not reliably. A search by video returns matching pages — possible sources that may be the original, a repost or a quotation. Ranking by matched frames is evidence, not a verdict about who posted first.
The clip may be too new to be indexed, the account private, or the footage edited until frames no longer match. Very generic frames — dark scenes, plain backgrounds — also match little. Empty results never prove a video is unique. A longer clip is not automatically better, by the way — five frames is the fixed sample either way, so a tight, content-dense cut usually beats uploading the whole ten minutes.
Results can include publicly indexed pages from these platforms when matching imagery is available to the web search provider. No platform's private catalog is queried by the search by video, so unlisted videos generally cannot appear.
MP4 and WebM work in all modern browsers, because the frames for your search by video are extracted locally — there is no server-side conversion. MOV, AVI and MKV are not guaranteed.
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