How to Search an Image on Google to Find the Source of a Broken Link

My two older sons (10 and 12) are too darn tech savvy for my own good.  It's hard to keep up with their skills these days!  Now, I find that I am not teaching them - they are teaching me.

My 12 year old heard me complaining the other night about a broken link on Pinterest.
"Just search the image, Mom."
"I can't do that, all I have is an image."
"Sure you can - give me that laptop."

And he proceeded to show me the most amazing thing - how to find the original source of an image with a broken link.
Oh. my. goodness.  How did I not know this?

So here it is-

Step 1:
Right click on the image you want to search.  Click on "Copy image URL"

Step 2:
Go to https://www.google.com/ and click on Images towards the top left.

Step 3:  

Click on the little camera.

Step 4:

Paste the image URL.  Click Search by Image.

Step 5:

Check out the results!

You may have to do a little detective work at this point to get to the original source, but it sure is better than no link at all!  Hope you can use this handy little tip:)

~Nikki