Giving credit: always credit your source

In Image Search, TinEye in action
April 4, 2011
1 Min read

A few weeks ago I came across Pia, Erin and Yvette‘s Giving Credit poster. I can’t tell you how excited I was because that’s something that is on our minds constantly – except that we sometimes call it “attribution”. 

I believe attribution is the web currency. Content creators want attribution and in an ideal world it should be straight forward for content users to give credit where it is due – every time. But that’s hardly the reality we have today. So this Give Credit poster is an awesome resource. Study it and give credit! Love that TinEye is part of the solution!

How to use TinEye to search for an image online

In Image Search, TinEye in action
July 25, 2017
7 Min read
TinEye Reverse Image Search

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!

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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...

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