| How long does google keep reverse image logs. | mikeeerules2000 | 9/26/11 12:27 AM | How safe would a picture be on google reverse image search. Take this scenerio.... a few months ago , my friend lost her i phone . on that i phone she had some pictures of her self well.... in the buff.... she wants to know if they are out on the |
| Re: How long does google keep reverse image logs. | Kelly F | 9/26/11 1:11 PM | Hi there, When a user uploads an image or provides an image URL to search by image, we treat that image as the user’s query and will log a thumbnail sized version of it. The reason for this is that our recognition engines are trained using a large c |
| Re: How long does google keep reverse image logs. | mikeeerules2000 | 9/26/11 1:20 PM | Kelly. you have been very helpful... Are these queeires accessible to your third party vendors or inhouse engineers. Is there a possiblity that in this case, someone could view the thumnail uploaded ? |
| Re: How long does google keep reverse image logs. | Kelly F | 9/26/11 4:26 PM | Third-party vendors cannot access this data. As mentioned before, the thumbnails are fed into a larger pool of images that help us improve the quality of this feature. |
| Re: How long does google keep reverse image logs. | mikeeerules2000 | 9/26/11 5:29 PM | Kelly ...Does that database exist 4 ever, or does it eventually get purged ? I mean, can you expect that thumnail to exist 2, 3, 5 years from now? I know that the gogole privacy faq doesnt answer this question at all. it only talks about IP data. But |
| Re: How long does google keep reverse image logs. | Kelly F | 9/30/11 8:44 AM | Hello again, To clarify, your query information is very secure and only accessible to people under Google's strict confidentiality requirements. Kelly |
| Re: How long does google keep reverse image logs. | Kelly F | 9/30/11 2:10 PM | When users search on Google, we collect information about the search, such as the query or image thumbnail itself, IP addresses and cookie information. After 9 months, we anonymize IP addresses and and after 18 months we anonymize cookies associated |
| Re: How long does google keep reverse image logs. | Shesielle Micha | 10/13/12 7:36 AM | Hello Kelly, I was reading your comments and I have an opposite situation. I want to find the images that I have downloaded one year ago. I tried uploading the image but it is not showing up even with if I filter the date when I downloaded them. Wou |