how to find a thread by the picture url

[TheOldWidow]

Is there a way to trace a picture back to the thread it was posted in?
Search and advanced search below will not accept the full number printed out under the picture. Thanks in advance. http://68.media.tumblr.com/8f7e16de738d2e9e71e5cb4bc7299017/tumblr_nhgqtc8w911s4...

The three dots are on the same line as the url.

 

[NightL]

Not understanding the question - you want to find the tumblr account?

Open the page in Google Chrome browser. Right click on the photo and select Search Google for image.

That will provide all websites containing the photo that have been indexed by Google.

Chances are any photo shared on Lit will have been posted on many websites - so you still could have a very large list to sort through.

 

[NightL]

the three dots just means the URL has been truncated for display.

 

[ReadyOne]

Look up tineye.com.

You give it the picture, and it finds sites where it has been posted. There is a firefox addon where you right click the image to start the search. If you use the web site, get the whole url.

For lit (and other BBS sites) this means "right click / copy link location" to get the url without any dots. Ones that contain dots, such as in your post, have been shortened and won't work (with the dots) in the address field.

ALso, if the URL doesn't work any more (common on Tumblr after a few days) then Tin Eye can't help you -- it need the picture itself to work from.

 

[TheOldWidow]

I copied the picture to my printer, and I do have the entire url (55 letter and number combinations) But, it does have the three dots on the end. I want a picture of the hands, to copy and enlarge.
Here's what I have.
http://68.media.tumblr.com/8f7e16de738d2e9e71e5cb4bc7299017/tumblr_nhgqtc8w911s4...

 

[TheOldWidow]

I wrote out the entire number, but it is automatically shortened when the message posts. I'm uncertain how to pass on the entire URL.

 

[NightL]

OK - so you are saying the picture no longer exists from where you printed it from?

If you downloaded the image to your computer use the "Search by image" feature in Google - https://www.google.com/imghp - click the camera icon then upload the image - it will list all the locations indexed.

If you only have the image in print form, scan it then upload the image file as mentioned above.

 

[TheOldWidow]

Thank you, I will give this a try.

 

[ReadyOne]

There are several problems to overcome here.

1. As you have noticed, Lit likes to shorten the displayed form of long URLs by replacing some of it with dots. When you want to copy a link in a post, right click the link and select "COPY LINK LOCATION". This gets the underlaying target, which is the unshortened URL.

Then some nube comes along and tries to quote the URL and ends up copying the part with the dots, because they did right click plain vanilla "copy". Now their quotation has what looks like a URL with dots, but the underlaying URL ALSO has dots.

This is because when Lit sees what could be a URL in the text, and tries to be helpful, saying "I'm going to make this apparent URL with dots into a click-able blue underlined" link. The underlaying target and the blue text are now the same, with dots, and won't work.

(Nube: Stop this by unchecking Automatically parse links in text under "Additional Options / Miscellaneous Options" while composing a reply. Now the blue link disappears, and a good proof reading will show an obviously broken link. Turn it on again before you submit, or add your links using "Insert Link".)

2. Links don't last forever. Tumblr, in particular, has gotten aggressive about the problem of "hot links", and move their picture around to different URL addresses.

If you are on Tumblr, using the Tumblr app, then Tumblr knows where to find them when they move.

If you are on Lit (or anywhere else), it's darn hard, nay imposable, to find their new location. Thus Tumblr encourages people to stay on Tumblr to get their pictures, instead of going elsewhere like Lit.

Therefore, if you find a picture that truly moves you, you need to right click and "SAVE LINK AS" to make a copy on your computer.

3. Archivists can't always save the page you want. The http://waybackmachine.org/ records copies of may web pages, but forum type postings seldom make it. There are 3 things going on here.

First, sites can opt out of indexing by posting a "keep out" notice (robots.txt file). Many consider their content too valuable, and want to keep it out of the indexes. They don't want portions appearing in a search results listing. It may be technically hard for them to know they are displaying content to someone who found the URL by search engine instead of their legitimate app.

Second, pages (like this one) don't technically exist -- they are dynamically constructed from a database on the fly every time they are requested. So if they don't really exist, it's hard to find them. Search bots would have to learn how to drive the forum index pages, and then track what parts of a page they have seen and what part is newly added.

Google and others have agreements with many forums to effectively index the forum provider's database, which gets around this technical issue. But Google can't get an agreement with everybody.

Third, agreements to index dynamic material often include making literal links themselves not searchable. Ditto for other content like Tumblr pictures.

In other words, Google can find the page when you search using something like the text of a post, but won't index the page by its' URL as is done for static pages. So you ask Google or Wayback machine for the page by its URL, or a page containing one of those URLs, they won't find it for you.

4. Archives aren't always indexed by URL.

People like Tin Eye don't allow you to search using a URL. Oh they know the URL associated with every picture they index. And if you can have Tin Eye find the picture by searching for the original .jgp (or one similar enough), Tin Eye will tell you that URL. They just don't provide a way to use a URL as a search key.

Google is somewhat similar. If a URL appears on a static page, it's searchable. If it's on a dynamic page (e.g. a forum or Tumblr) then frequently it is deliberately excluded from the index.

5. The Lit index isn't that great.

This is a general problem with everybody's BBS software. Why work on a fantastic search function, when Google search by site exists?

Searching with Lit's built-in restricts the target length, words in the target, characters in the target, and only does a literal search for the full target. URLs are basically unusable as targets.
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Anyway, I spent some time trying to run down your link, and I declare it "lost in the past".

But what goes around keeps coming around, at least in Lit pictures. In the fullness of time, I'm sure the picture will be rediscovered and reposted.

Keep you eyes open!

 

[TheOldWidow]

Ready One,
thank you for the explanation. I'm not on Tumblr or Tin eye, I have enough problems with this site...always dropping me or freezing. I so appreciate you chasing the link, the hands in the photo were simply ones that took my fancy. Working hands, hands that get work done without hype.
I copied your instructions, in case I run against this again. Thanks,TOW.

 

[TheOldWidow]

I found it!!
Ahhh,
Playground/ Erotic Couples..once again/Lily13
Posted by Golden Palomino/ page 61/ on 1-15-17 @12:21pm
Shivers.