Imitation is the highest form of flattery?

November 2, 2011

1 Min read

oh @99designs you are so funny! One of our TinEye fans mentioned that a design being considered for a 99Designs contest used our TinEye mascot, and dropping by the 99Designs contest page here is what we see:

and a little enlargement reveals the following:

Now: does that little robot look familiar to you? Reminds me of… let me guess… the TinEye Robot!

We are really excited that this @99designs designer was so inspired by our TinEye robot: I mean our robot is awesome and we get that but for @99designs not to remove the design from the contest? That’s just insane. Here is the @99designs response we received once the design was reported:

Really? Really?

UPDATE:

The infringing design has now been taken down by @99designs.

How to use TinEye to search for an image online

In Image Search, TinEye in action

July 25, 2017

7 Min read

To search by image, you use a reverse image search engine. TinEye is the original reverse image search engine, using image recognition with a growing index of billions of images. You can use TinEye to find out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find a higher resolution version. Let’s learn to do a reverse image search with TinEye!

Does TinEye keep images I upload during a search?

In Image Search

May 26, 2016

2 Min read

“What happens to the image I upload to TinEye for searching? Are they saved and added to your database? Can anyone else see them?” These are questions we often receive from our TinEye fans.

Using TinEye to find the copyright owner of an image

In Image Search, Popular Posts

February 12, 2016

4 Min read

Here at the TinEye HQ we receive user questions about our reverse image search engine and its search results every day, which is wonderful (we are not complaining!). So we’ve decided to answer our user questions through a series of blog posts. This week’s question comes to us in many many many forms, but it can simply be distilled to: “How do I find the copyright owner of...