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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
Project Codename TinEye Launched in Private Beta
We not-so-quietly launched our internet-wide image search engine codenamed TinEye to our private beta testers today.
TinEye does for images what Google does for text.
Just as you are familiar with entering text in Google to find web pages that contain that text, using TinEye, you enter an image to find pages where that particular image (and modified versions of it) appears.
Everywhere Girl
I just stumbled upon Joey Coleman’s write up on MacLeans.ca about the Everywhere Girl and his reference to my blogpost about her. I wish I had seen his University of Manitoba blog post from 2005! Nice addition to our Everywhere Girl tracking. I haven’t seen her lately in our image identification reports since our book cover findings. I wonder if she has ever been used on a cover of a...