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How to Identify Mysterious Images Online

Where exactly did that image come from...?


"Can't figure out the source of an image you found online? There's an easy trick you might not know about — and it's an essential tool for citing sources. Students who find images they want to use in projects need to follow the appropriate rules of citation: state the title and the original source. But with so much misinformation and mis-attribution online, students might either change the research topic to avoid the problem altogether or simply cite the source poorly."

Read this article to find out how to use the powerful search feature in Google Images to track down the original source of an image your students are using in a project or presentation.

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