Enhance Search feature to allow Search by Photo
As a user of enthusiast forums, I need the Search tool to allow me to provide an image that it uses to match against images in the ads so that I can quickly find a car when a user is asking for advice and provides a photo.
It’s common on car forums, Reddit, social media for users to create a post asking if a price or deal is “good”. Sometimes they include a photo ripped out of the dealer ad. A lot of times, the user doesn’t provide a link to the ad and doesn’t provide great information to narrow down the car. As a Visor.Vin user, I then have to bracket whatever information the user has provided (such as mileage and price) then scroll through images trying to find a match.
It would save me a lot of time if I could simply open a new browser tab w/ Visor.Vin and drag/drop the image they provided to pull up the advertisement with a matching image.
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Cole Smith
Dec 6, 2025
Hey @Porphyre - really interesting idea. I can’t promise that this will come soon, but we are working towards a state within the next few months or so where this would be possible. In the meantime, have you tried Google Image reverse search by chance?
Porphyre
Jan 4
Google actually attempts to do a visual match so it pulls up every image of “black car at ¾ profile from driver side”. I know you store the image uris vs images themselves. I was thinking your crawler could download them but store only a hash or checksum. If the user uploads the exact image the dealer posted, it should pop up.