TinEye is certainly busy searching up a storm. It is great to see so many nifty search results and to find out how our beta image search engine is helping you locate images online. From photoshopped cows to book cover artwork, TinEye is finding amazing matches.
Here are just a few of the recent cool searches that have been submitted to us by TinEye fans from around the globe…
On the subject of search: the Petabyte Age
From Chris Anderson the editor in chief of Wired: Sixty years ago, digital computers made information readable. Twenty years ago, the Internet made it reachable. Ten years ago, the first search engine crawlers made it a single database. Now Google and like-minded companies are sifting through the most measured age in history, treating this massive corpus as a laboratory of the human condition...
Portfolio building with TinEye
One of the challenges faced by microstock photographers is building a portfolio of images in use. Odds are that once an image is purchased it’s unlikely that the photographer will hear back about how and where that image was used. How do you demonstrate that your work is in demand? What if you just want to show your published work to friends and family? As we’ve heard...
Locating original images with TinEye
Veggurl posted a query on Yahoo!Answers a few weeks ago asking “Could you please help me find the original image? I found this photo on photobucket. It has been modified. I am desperate to find the original photo. I have tried searching on Google and Yahoo, no luck. Can someone help me? Thank you.” Here’s the image she posted: Unfortunately the only response didn’t help...
TinEye finds your image sources
Sometimes people ask us, what exactly can you use TinEye for? Well, there’s a long list, but here’s just one example of a great way to use our image search engine. Mitchell liked an image he found on the website pixdaus.com and posted it to his friendfeed. Unfortunately, the photographer’s name was missing and there was no link to the original image source. On friendfeed you can...
TinEye: Image Search Top Dog!
John Conroy’s 75 Bleeding-Edge Search Engines To Beat Google puts TinEye in the “Top Dog” slot for Image and Photo Search Engines, saying “this thing is gonna be big, boys and girls.”
Stock Photo Help Desk Lady
It seems like data room lady has a challenger. TinEye found “stock photo help desk lady” in over 40 places on the web. You can check out the TinEye search to see all the results or request an invite if you don’t have a beta account. Help desk lady is busy! She works for so many companies… impressive! While she is no competition for Everywhere Girl, it’s still pretty...
Taking the lead in visual search
Idée and TinEye get a nod from Tom Keenan in ‘Cloud computing a down-to-earth solution’ from last month’s Business Edge. Keenan says “Idée is definitely in the visual search-engine lead.” Yes we are!
Search Engines for Librarians (and the rest of us)
Laura Milligan’s list of 50 Awesome Search Engines Every Librarian Should Know About is a handy resource, and not just for librarians. Nicely organized into sub-groups such as Meta Search and Multi Search, Multimedia and Interactive, Great Niche Sites for Librarians, Custom/Reference searches and more, the post introduced me to many sites I’d never heard of. Scirus for scientific...
Meanwhile, somewhere in the East… a TinEye story
Scott Liddell scored a TinEye beta invitation yesterday and I have to say, he has some lovely finds. Using TinEye, Scott searched for his images in our index of over 700 million images and came up with some surprising results! Scott shares on his blog: And someone at HP seems to really like my fruit because it seems to be in quite a few places. So do Channel 4, in the guise of that odious jobbie...