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...
Managing your Tineye account
We’re thrilled with our growing community of TinEye fans. We’re glad to have each one of you, but we also know that sometimes folks want to delete accounts (for whatever reason) and you should be able to do that with TinEye too. Now you can. If you need to delete your beta account just click on the profile tab in the top right corner of your browser window when signed into TinEye. The...
Celebrity photograph record: $14 million
Publication rights to photographs of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt‘s newborn twins sold to People and Hello! magazines for the reported sum of $14 million.
Automatic face replacement? Check!
I had not seen this paper about automatic face replacement to deal with privacy issues for example. […] we present a complete system for automatic face replacement in images. Our system uses a large library of face images created automatically by downloading images from the internet, extracting faces using face detection software, and aligning each extracted face to a common coordinate...
TinEye release: bookmarklet, landing page and more
Hello TinEyers! The TinEye team was busy this week, but we’ve rolled out a great new release. Below are some of the features and updates you will notice on your next visit.