Well folks TinEye is back online, thanks to S3 being back. Ouch. How is that for a poke in the TinEye. Sorry about the interruption, searching resumes now.
TinEye private investigator
John Arrington’s review of TinEye just landed in my inbox forwarded by a colleague and that would have been just an awesome read if I had not woken up this morning to TinEye being down! We are in the office, getting rolling on bringing it back, the team is being hawled out of bed as we speak (happy Sunday!). There is no rest for the wicked! This is the first down time we have experienced so...
TinEye and the data lady (a romantic search adventure)
Stéphane Lee pointed me yesterday to the Data Lady. This lady is going to be added to my Everywhere Girl fascination! The Data Lady is a stock photograph of a lady that is being used in a lot of data center websites, collocation websites, large database company websites and of course web hosting sites… you get the picture. Stephane used TinEye to find where else she is appearing and of...
Google experiments with crowdsourcing search (results)
Justin Hileman has a great little post about one Google’s latest experiment for search engine results page (SERP); this experiment allows users to influence their search experience by adding, moving and removing search results. Justin explains how it works and talks about his experiments here.
TinEye Feature: Favicons
Our Ryan has a post up about favicons in TinEye. Before the implementation of the favicons on TinEye it was kind of painful to keep track of the searches that you did, and if you are like us you are doing a lot of searches on TinEye, opening new tabs all the time and you end up with say 20 tabs open and no idea of which TinEye search was completed in what tab. Favicons come to the rescue. If you...
What group is that on your t-shirt? TinEye knows!
What folks at the ideeplex do on their lunch break. TinEye their t-shirts. Yes, we are geeks.
What band is this? Check out the search result below. TinEy returned 12 hits, but we only need this one here.
Click on the image, there’s all the information about the band! Snazzy.
Have a neat t-shirt search? Let us know!
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Yahoo’s BOSS
Last week Yahoo introduced BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) . BOSS is Yahoo!’s open search web services platform. This could be interesting. I am curious to see what developers and other start-ups may use BOSS for and if any interesting web-scale search products will see the light using BOSS. I personally would like to utilize the entire Yahoo image search index :) I see BOSS as allowing...
The weird science of stock photography
This Slate article ended up in my feeds as it mentions my favourite stock photography girl (well lady now!): the Everywhere Girl. As most of you know (if you didn’t, now you do): I am fascinated by her travels in the online and print world. This reminds me that I need to use TinEye on a few of her images and see what I spot this time around. A couple of things caught my eye in Seth...
Lawrence Lessig talks about Creative Commons and Copyright
Jim Goldstein interviews Law Professor Lawrence Lessig for his podcast EXIF and Beyond. In Goldstein’s podcast Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, discusses the purpose and objective of Creative Commons, his perspective on copyright law and addresses the question “How if at all the adoption of Creative Commons is hurting photographers”. He also shares more information about the...
Bigger index, more cool searches!
A bigger index means more amazing image searches with even more matches in TinEye! I don’t know what strikes folks to edit a particular image more than others, but there are some fantastically popular ones out there that you all love to photoshop. We’ve shown you everything from Mona Lisa to Angela Jolie in other posts, so let’s take a look at the guys that you’ve cropped...