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  • TinEye Cool Searches: Redux

    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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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 blog post. Just a little over a month ago (when the index was a tad over 700 million images) we took a look at some well known pictures from across the web to see how many of them TinEye could find.  Now we can try those searches again to see what kind of results will we get after adding almost a quarter of a billion more images to the index.

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  • 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 across the web.

    From rockstar face paint to pirate eye patches and green skin, angry baby is certainly a favourite for all of you out there when it comes to digitally altering pics you’ve found online.

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  • 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 are used across the web, or you saw an image and want to find out where it came from, TinEye is incredibly useful.

    And we are still in beta, building our index and working on some amazing new features that will make your TinEye search experience even better.

    Read the rest of the ars technica review >>

  • 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 questions that come to mind when you are a first time TinEye user and wondering what this search engine is really all about.

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  • 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 included with the image. Even the filename can’t help you. What do you do?

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  • 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 depend on what information others have posted online along with the specific image you are searching for.

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