ArchiveAugust 2008

Where in the world are your photos?

Omar Gallaga’s post “Where in the world wide Web are your photos?” caught my eye today for a few reasons. There’s a great citizen journalist story wrapped up in there, along with some thoughts on Creative Commons, copyright and giving your images away for free. One quote I found particularly interesting was: Share your photos with the world, or hide them behind virtual...

Nameless burger joint found!

Last month I was visiting a friend in New York who took me to this great, albeit hard to find, burger joint hidden away on the ground floor of a swanky Manhattan hotel. It was tiny, lively and tasty and I was trying to remember its name so I could tell another friend about it, but I couldn’t. In fact, I’m not sure it even has a name. I never saw a menu because all they sell is burgers...

Beijing and sport in photos

If, like me, you missed the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics, fear not. The Big Picture has a stunning selection of images that almost transport you there. There are some fantastic images of the ceremonies on flickr too. For more celebration of sports photography head over to The Digital Journalist and the Walter Iooss Jr. gallery. Iooss is regarded as one of the finest sports photographers of...

Piet Mondrian, TinEye and our fans

Our beta image search engine, TinEye, has been adopted by folks from across the photography sphere. On Flickr, deviantART, Digital Photography Review and so many other forums we’re hearing great stories about how you are using TinEye and what you think of our search engine. And not to forget our blogger friends! We read all your posts, your first impressions, your image discoveries (check...

TinEye helps UK photographer recover revenues

Colin Bell read about TinEye on a US photographers forum. He ran some of his images through our image search engine and came up with some interesting finds. One website (of a “rather well known organization” he politely says, not mentioning any names) stepped right up when he brought the use of his image to their attention. They offered to pay Colin and after a quick negotiation the...

Being BOSSed around

Last month Yahoo! Search BOSS launched and since then there have been plenty of folks taking advantage of the BOSS APIs & services to product some very interesting search products. The team at Yahoo! say: By providing deep access to Yahoo! Search’s investment in engineering, sciences and core search infrastructure and removing key usage restrictions, we are encouraging a whole new level...

TinEye and watermarks

One of the questions we hear quite often is about watermarks on images. Is it better to search with the watermark on the image or search using the original without a watermark? For TinEye, typically images with visible watermarks should be avoided. TinEye views the watermark as part of the image and may find matches for the watermark rather than for the rest of the image.
Happy searching!

The revival of the Polaroid

Well, sort of.  Earlier this year Petters Group Worldwide, the company that owns Polaroid Corp., announced that it would stop producing instant photography film. They were open to anyone that was interested in picking up the technology in order to continue to produce the film, and as it turns out, they found a couple of takers.

Bloody clever

Photographer Adrian Carmody over on redbubble says TinEye is “a bloody clever way of searching for your images.” Well, our image search engine is the first of its kind, able to find your images online without keywords or metadata — clever indeed! The way it matches images is incredibly unique. It doesn’t search on file name or size. I tried with thumbnails of my images, and it...

See what the world is searching for

Inside Google Insights for Search: some awesome data on search term traffic. If you have not dropped by: don’t during working hours, you will have a hard time prying yourself from your screen. Here is a an example chart for cloud computing:
Interest over time:

By region: