: How can I edit an image so it doesn't come up on google images search I am building an online game that works with images. The user has to guess who's in the altered image that the website

@Dunderdale640

I assume you mean people are right-clicking the image and doing a reverse google image search. An easy (read, hack) way of getting past this is putting a transparent layer on top of the image so people can't right-click on the image directly. If people really want to cheat, you can't stop them and they will succeed. Performing image tweaks is probably a lot more effort than it is worth.

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@Rambettina927

If you need to use images that are well known (or at least are searchable online) you can mess up the way Google recognize the images by doing small changes to the images. You need to destroy the patterns that make the image easy to associate.

For example, with face recognition or pictures that are already online:


You can change the background color and use a color that will
"merge" the image of the subject with it
AND then you also do a flip horizontal and add an angle to the image.


Original

This is an example of an original, Google recognize it instantly:



This is the result on Google image search of the original image:



Modified

This is a modified version:



This is the result on Google image search of the modified image:



You have no choice in doing something like this since your issue is not the indexing; your issue is probably that other sites have the image indexed and people can save your image and do a reverse search of it (If I understood the question well.)

Make some tests, flip the image, rotate a bit, add a pattern to the background, etc. You'll find a formula that works for you. My example is a crude one!



Barack Obama example

Original:



Search result:



Modified:



Search result of modified:

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@Chiappetta793

You don't have to edit your image to prevent it from "GoogleBot"! You can use URL Remover Link link to specify search Engine not to track or crawl the links!


There is also a automatic way to tell GoogleBot not to track specific
images or the folders!


For example, if you want Google to exclude the dogs.jpg image that appears on your site at yoursite.com/images/dogs.jpg, add the following to your robots.txt file:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /images/dogs.jpg


The next time Google crawls your site, we'll see this directive and drop your image from our search results.

To remove all the images on your site from our index, place the following robots.txt file in your server root:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /


You can find more details here

Hope this answers your question.

-Pratik Shah

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