CategoryImage Recognition

Everything is Visual: Introducing the TinEye Mona Lisa Widget

Because we love to have fun at the idéeplex we came up with a snazzy, embeddable widget that demonstrates the image identification technology behind TinEye: the image search engine! What is TinEye you ask? Given an image to search for, TinEye tells you where and how that image appears all over the web – even if it has been modified. When you want to find out where an image is being used on...

Cool Searches from our TinEye fans

We asked, you answered! We asked you what TinEye search just knocked your socks off? Which one made you laugh out loud? What search made you look around and say “I just have to show someone this, it’s so cool!”? And you answered us. We’ve had hundreds of submissions to the cool searches page! Thanks to all our fans for sharing and for having as much fun with TinEye as we...

TinEye’s “Cool Searches” – now with extra “cool”!

One of the really fun things about TinEye is coming across a surprising search that makes you say “Wow, this so cool!” It can be a bit of a contest here at the Idéeplex, finding the most interesting results using our very nifty image search engine. TinEye has a “Cool Searches” page that showcases some of the interesting TinEye searches we’ve come across in our travels...

Jim Goldstein interviews Leila Boujnane for EXIF and Beyond podcast

Catch our CEO talking all about the exciting features coming down the pipe for TinEye on EXIF and Beyond with Jim Goldstein. Jim is an independent photographer specializing in landscape, travel, nature and event photography. He also produces the informative and engaging EXIF and Beyond podcast and shares insights on photography and the photo industry on his blog. TinEye has only been in a private...

Always improving!

Our awesome developers have been super-busy rolling out the latest TinEye tweaks and updates. Thanks to our community for sharing all your suggestions, we’re listening!
We’ve made quite a few changes here and there, some you might have noticed, some are behind the scenes but all of them are going to help make your TinEye experience even better!

Taking TinEye for a spin

Michael from macro art in nature takes TinEye for a spin and is impressed. His review and comments are pretty much in line with what we have been hearing these past weeks: TinEye is an awesome image-to-image search engine when it finds results! Well of course, of course! What would an image search engine be if it did not find results! As we mentioned our index is growing, our next larger index is...

TinEye Podcast

I had a great time talking with Jim Goldstein about TinEye and his podcast is now available for your listening. Jim Goldstein is a stunning independent photographer who has photographed some of my favourite locations in the world including Point Reyes. I am in California next week and I will be running here. If you have any questions about the podcast: I am listening at lboujnane (@) ideeinc.com...

TinEye gets Popular! Popular Photography magazine, that is!

Pop over to PopPhoto.com for the latest coverage on TinEye. Our beta image search engine is featured on the PopPhoto website and that’s just fantastic. I know there will be more TinEye fans soon. “Boujnane and Idée are on to something very smart with TinEye.” the article notes. We’re glad they think so, we keep hearing that from our great community of beta testers too...

TinEye offers students a new way to search!

We love the idea that TinEye could make learning and education a little bit easier! That’s why we were so pleased to read Linda Braun’s post on teenagers and the world of search. “It’s important for librarians serving teens to recognize the search tools that are preferred by the age group. Searchme and TinEye are particularly good for those teens who are visual and who might be...