With an updated index and some behind-the-scenes tweaks, TinEye is now better than ever at finding your images in our index of over a billion images. And we just updated our TinEye Cool Searches, showcasing a new crowd of fun and interesting searches for you to explore.
They came, they saw, they installed TinEye Music…
Last night we hosted a little event here at the idéeplex to share the latest toy we are working on. We were lucky to have a great group of folks from the Toronto tech community join us to ‘kick the tires’ of our soon-to-be-released beta app for iPhone.
Multicolr Search: now 100% pure Creative Commons
What’s even better than a Multicolr search lab with 3 million interesting images?
One with 10 million Creative Commons images!
That’s right, the Flickr Multicolr search lab just received a facelift and now it works with 10 millions Creative Commons images from Flickr.
TinEye: now searching 900 million images!
That’s right folks, we just added another 200 million images to TinEye (give or take a few million). Now you can search over 900,000,000 images in real time, comparing any image against our index of almost one billion images crawled from the web. What does this mean for you, TinEye searcher? More matches! Let’s try out a few example searches using the same images I used in an earlier...
Angry baby meets TinEye
Yes, everyone’s favourite irate infant has made it to the Idée blog. And what could be more amusing than the original shot of this cranky little fellow? Well let me tell you, that would be the TinEye embeddable “angry baby’ widget, showcasing the many creative edits folks have made to this belligerent baby’s photo. How did we do it? We used TinEye to locate copies of the image from all...
ars technica reviews TinEye
Jacqui Cheng from ars technica took TinEye for a spin and shared her thoughts on our image search engine, saying: Our opinion of the site transformed from skeptical to impressed as we used it more and more. It’s obviously not meant for casual web browsing or finding out what that crazy animal you saw on the side of the road is. However, if you are trying to keep track of how your creations...
Just the FAQs please
Who knew a FAQ could be so convincing? One of the great deviantART folks, posted a review of TinEye today. My favourite part? At first glance the service by new image search engine TinEye seems to be a great way of seeing if there are multiples of any image on the web. After looking at their FAQ I decided I liked it a lot more. Nice to hear that our TinEye FAQ rocks! We have tried to answer most...
TinEye, data miner
Happy Thursday, friends. Today’s TinEye tip includes a cool search submitted by Larry. What if someone has sent you an image, maybe via email, maybe they shared it on Facebook or ffffound. You love it and would like to use it as a screen saver, or perhaps in a blog post. The problem? Your friend can’t remember where he got it and there are no details about the original photographer...
Battle Logo
So I happened upon a discussion about what logo was most popular online and wondered what the results would be if I did a search for major brands and their logos using TinEye. Battle Logo, begin!
Have image, will TinEye
Glen, an art director and and graphic designer, sent us this cool search and said “this image shows the various steps and elements used in a tutorial.” What a great search. TinEye is a handy tool that can help you to learn more about how an image was created, whether it was photoshopped and perhaps even locate some additional background information on the image. Your results will...