Google's mobile site hides the upload button, so "search Google with a picture" is oddly hard on a phone. Here's how to run a Google Lens reverse search from any photo in your browser — plus Yandex and Bing for when Google comes up short.
Open the reverse image search tool →Google Lens is the strongest engine for identifying products, plants and animals, landmarks, and any text inside an image. It's the one to start with for "what is this object" questions. Where it's weaker is matching a specific photo that's been resized or lightly edited — if Google can't find it, switch the same image to Yandex, which often does better on visual-similarity matches.
Yes. Google's mobile site hides the upload button, but a browser tool lets you pick a photo and send it to Google Lens with no app install.
Google hides the camera-upload button on its mobile Images page. A dedicated tool restores that step and hands the image to Google for you.
Google Lens is Google's visual search, which includes reverse image matching plus object, text, and product recognition.