- TinEye love, TinEye linkfest!
Yes! You like us!Our image search engine is the talk of the town! TinEye has hundreds of mentions on blogs, forums and websites around the world!
“Even if this is in private beta, it works perfectly. TinEye is the start of a revolution.” – Razvan Pirnac, trendblogging.org
“tineye.com is an awesome tool. I think it’ll be something we’ll be wondering how we ever lived without in the near future. ” – deadmann, Twitter
(Did you know TinEye is on twitter? Come and say hello!)
“This is something really mind blowing. We are probably witnessing the development of a technology which is going to be used at a regular basis by people like us.” – sundesigns, stock.xchng forum
Are you excited about the next release? We are! Thank you for all your comments, suggestions and tremendous support. We can’t wait to grow our image index and make TinEye better for you. The Idéeplex is buzzing with energy night and day as we work on improvements, they are coming soon! Stay tuned!
We always want to hear from our users, please keep sending your comments, tweaks, feature ideas and kudos (we love kudos!) to tineyefeedback @ ideeinc.com.
What? You don’t have a TinEye account yet? Visit tineye.com and we will make sure you get one lickety-split!
** photo Duncan Cumming
- TinEye finds WWII officer Lt. Col. Anna Walker Wilson
The Idéeplex was full of cheers when we heard Patrick Peccatte‘s story about his search for the female officer in one of the many PhotosNormandie photos (a project to discuss and improve images description on WW2 historical photos).Long a mystery to him and his fellow WWII historians, Patrick used TinEye to see if he could learn more about the officer in the photo.
The result? With just one search, and in just a few seconds, TinEye located the identical photo in Mattie E. Treadwell’s book The Women’s Army Corps, published in 1954! Finally, a name! Lt. Col. Anna Walker Wilson was the very first WAC to arrive in the European Theater of Operations. It is nice to meet you, Lt. Col. Wilson!
We can’t tell you how exciting it is to see the amazing ways our community is using TinEye!
These are fantastic results, even though our index is still small. But it is growing and we believe TinEye is going to change how the world searches for images.
Welcome historians and history buffs to our growing TinEye community!
- TinEye happiness at deviantART!
Hello new friends at deviantART!
It was exciting to find out that Paula and our deviant fans are loving TinEye. We love your photos too!
We are listening to you and working hard at growing the index and adding cool new features to TinEye! It is great to hear all the awesome things you have to say so far:
evile33: “That thing blows me away…”
kkart: “This thing is INCREDIBLE!”
sometimes121: “Amazing .. I really needed this kind of search ..”
“That is news worthy indeed.” We think so! Thanks!
Keep the comments and suggestions coming, we love to hear from you.
We are approving TinEye invites as quickly as we can. If you haven’t received yours or haven’t requested an invitation yet come and visit us at tineye.com! Chop, chop! We’re waiting for you!
- We love TinEye fans (and their videos)!
TinEye’s community is growing fast!
Our new friend, professional photographer Yanik Chauvin, has a fantastic blog (and several photography sites too!) where he shares tips, product reviews and photography-related tutorials.
We were excited to read Yanik’s recent post about TinEye – it is a hit around the Idéeplex!
We enjoyed it so much we wanted to make sure all of our friends had a chance to read the interview and see the video too.
Thanks Yanik, we are thrilled that our growing community includes creative folks like you!
- Thank you TinEye Community!
It’s been a busy week here at Idée and an even busier one for TinEye! Since our TinEye beta launched, we’ve had users from all over the globe trying out our image search engine, providing feedback and sharing their results! And we have to say: we love you, we love your feedback and we are working super hard on the next release.
TinEye has gone around the world and made some incredible friends in the US, Canada, Japan, Hungary, China, Germany, Italy, France and the UK to just name a few countries! So we want to thank you all from the bottom of our (robot) heart!
We found out that we have an amazing group of TinEye fans in Hungary at the Stock.Xchng forum, lead by photographer Cris DeRaud. It is great for us to see TinEye helping photographers locate how and where their images are being used!
In their words: “This is something really mind blowing. We are probably witnessing the development of a technology which is going to be used at a regular basis by people like us.” Amen!
Gareth and the great folks at bit-tech took some time to check out TinEye and we were thrilled to know that one of the UK’s leading tech review sites really dig us. Thanks guys!
Popping over to the British Isles, we heard from David Hoffmann of the Editorial Photographers United Kingdom and Ireland, who said “This is very impressive…this is a real breakthrough.” We could not agree more!
Photographer Robert Kneschke, from Germany, used TinEye to find unlicensed copies of his images in his first searches with our little tiny image index. Don’t worry folks: the image index will be growing very soon!
On to Italy where a blogger at Giavasan described TinEye as “a new search engine for images that kicks ass” and said it is “literally a dream come true.” Wow, we feel the same way! We’re glad you liked the simple and intuitive interface, quick search results and the Firefox plug-in too! Grazie, siamo contenti vedere cosi tanto d’interesse nel prodotto!
Nearer to home – that’s Canada for all you visitors! – the forums at iStockPhoto have been buzzing with news about TinEye. All good.
Susan‘s highlighted some great uses for TinEye and we are greatful: “It has the potential to be hugely useful once coverage is more complete, especially to image producers and their agencies who want to keep tight control on where and how their images are used. Very useful for image purchasers too considering web usage of an image – they could check pretty easily who else is using it and for what purposes to make sure there aren’t any unforeseen and potentially embarrassing overlaps in the same market.”
More TinEye ‘sightings’ from around the web? TinEye was discussed during a Canadian podcast and profiled in the National Post too!
We want to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts because without you all these long nights would not make sense. Stay tuned for more TinEye goodness to come your way. If you have not requested your TinEye invitation all we have for you is a single question: What – are – you – waiting – for?
- Business News Network (BNN) features TinEye
We were excited when Canada’s only all business specialty channel, the Business News Network (BNN), picked up the TinEye story and featured it on After Hours May 6th.We were even more excited when they asked us back to do another segment! Leila Boujnane, our CEO, was in studio with Kim Parlee and Andrew Bell on Friday, May 9th to talk about TinEye and the exciting things happening at Idée!
You can watch the five minute segment on Business News Network or pop by our website, we’ll have the link for you in the Press and Events section. Fast forward to 41:20 for the piece.
- Spot the iPhone!
Over a year ago Jason Kottke photoshopped a Windows desktop onto an iPhone and posted it on his very popular blog. Yesterday it was spotted on an Australian TV news show. Today, I used TinEye to see if indeed this wonderful photoshopped iPhone (I mean who would not want an iPhone running Windows XP) could be spotted anywhere else. And you guessed it: this little image is famous!The iPhone running Windows XP is even on eBay for sale!
- Big Index! Getting Bigger…
Indices…That’s what dreams are made of! Our TinEye search index is approaching 500,000,000 images; that’s half a billion folks!
Killer Kitten on TinEye. View full size.Half a billion may sound like a lot, doesn’t it? Well it is really just the beginning and that’s a tiny portion of all the images online today.
We are officially launching TinEye, our image identification based search engine, in a closed beta. What does this mean? You can request an invitation and servers permitting we will provide one! And you will get to play and experiment with the world’s first image identification search engine.
TinEye has been garnering great reviews already, from “the next frontier for web search” from the National Post to “indistiguishable from magic” from Jeff Barr, Amazon Evangelist to “image-recognition company that is second to none” Mathew Ingram.
You are all familiar with the Google or text based approach to searching: insert keywords in the search field and retrieve search results. TinEye uses an image as input instead. Rather than entering text, you upload an image to TinEye or you give it an image URL. It’s that simple! TinEye then uses our search index to retrieve where your search image has appeared in all the websites that we have indexed. No small feat.
And for your viewing eyes the TinEye video:
- Uncle Same Wants You
We have been playing with our new image search service and doing all kinds of interesting searches. The questions in my mind is: when you do a Google image search, you typically find images that are tagged with your subject matter tag: say I am looking for “Uncle Sam” images, I find images that are tagged “Uncle Sam” or in a page with “Uncle Sam” text in close proximity to the image. Now how different would my image search results be if I used an image as the input. No tags, just an image of “Uncle Sam” and ask an image search engine to retrieve all of “Uncle Sam” images. How different would the results be?
I am betting they will be quite different. So we are continuing to play with our image search engine!
- Everywhere Girl, The Book
If you’ve ever worried about photos from your past coming back to haunt you, get to know the story of the Everywhere Girl. Over a decade ago she was a young actress posing for a series of stock photos. While she’s no Mona Lisa, in recent years her photos have made their way into royalty-free collections and crept into print and web designs the world over. First chronicled in Paul Hales’ technology blog The Inquirier and later by Idée’s own CEO Leila, the Everywhere Girl now even has her own blog. While fans have been compiling her images with the human eye for years, no method is better suited to this kind of task than image-recognition technology.We indexed a series of Everywhere Girl photos using PixID our image recognition technology and have been monitoring the appearance of the Everywhere Girl. Here are the interesting results from our book cover monitoring project:
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