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Find out who copied you
Before you can send a notice you need the URL of the copy, and the copy is usually somewhere you would never think to look. These are the four searches that find it, wired up so you don't have to build the query strings by hand.
Find copied images
Paste the address of one of your own images. Not the page it sits on, the image file itself. Right-click the photo, copy image address, paste it here.
Reverse image search
Use all four, they disagree
Google and Bing are strongest on large commercial sites. TinEye is the only one that sorts by oldest first, which is how you prove who published first. Yandex is markedly better at finding altered copies, including crops, mirrors and recolours, and it routinely surfaces marketplace listings the others miss.
Find copied text
Take one distinctive sentence from your product description, ideally one with an odd turn of phrase in it. Common sentences match everything and prove nothing.
Exact-phrase search
Preserve the evidence before it moves
The moment a copier senses a complaint, the page changes. Capture it first, in this order:
- Full-page screenshot with the URL bar and date visible. A cropped screenshot of the image alone proves nothing about where it was.
- Save the page itself, not just a picture of it. Print to PDF is enough and keeps the text selectable.
- Submit the URL to the Wayback Machine. A third-party archive with a timestamp is far stronger evidence than anything on your own machine, and it takes one paste.
- Keep your originals with their metadata. Camera files and layered working files carry creation dates. A published JPEG does not.
Make it a routine, not a panic
Checking once because you're annoyed finds one thief. Checking on a schedule finds the pattern, and the pattern is what gets an account terminated rather than a single listing removed.
- Pick your five best-selling products and reverse-search their main image once a month.
- Set a Google Alert on one distinctive phrase per product line, in quotes.
- Log every copy you find with the date. The repeat-infringer count is the mechanism that actually removes a persistent copier, and it only works if you file separately each time.
Once you have the URL, the notice generator will assemble the document. If the copy sits on a store you recognise, the Shopify, Etsy and Amazon pages cover where each one wants it sent.