A huge thank you to all the folks out there talking about TinEye! Here are just a few of our favourites…
“I am a born cynic, but after putting TinEye to the test with some of my photos I’ve quickly become a believer…” says professional photographer Jim Goldstein in his post Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online? He goes on to state “Although Google is the 800 pound gorilla of search they’ve been beat to the punch by Idée Inc.”
Pop over to PopPhoto.com for the latest coverage on TinEye. Our beta image search engine is featured on the PopPhoto website and that’s just fantastic. I know there will be more TinEye fans soon.
“Boujnane and Idée are on to something very smart with TinEye.” the article notes. We’re glad they think so, we keep hearing that from our great community of beta testers too.
What do you use TinEye for? The folks at PopPhoto covered a number of great TinEye uses from historical research to brand tracking to “good old-fashioned curiosity”. We have a lot of that last one at the idéeplex!
PopPhoto states “Idée’s goal with TinEye is quite simple: to be the image search engine.”
Exactly! With over 12,500 users registered in under a month, an index soon to tip past one billion images and many exciting new features in the works, we’re well on our way. Thanks everyone for your incredible support and feedback! Stay tuned as we start featuring some of our TinEye community fans and their TinEye uses.
Has TinEye helped you lately? Let us know!
We love the idea that TinEye could make learning and education a little bit easier!
That’s why we were so pleased to read Linda Braun’s post on teenagers and the world of search.
“It’s important for librarians serving teens to recognize the search tools that are preferred by the age group.
Searchme and TinEye are particularly good for those teens who are visual and who might be more successful with searching and results that are displayed in an image-based form. ”
Fantastic!
It is exciting to have educators, librarians and library associations joining our growing community and we really hope to hear more about how you are using TinEye with your students and your community.
We were also happy to hear that Linda thinks “…searching TinEye gives you a sense of where search is headed.” We agree wholeheartedly!
Know a librarian or teacher who might be interested in TinEye? Send them our way!
“I’ve seen my fair share of image search demos, and they usually promise far more than they deliver. But last week, I finally saw one that deserves the name. It is called TinEye.” wrote Erick Schonfeld of, you got it, TechCrunch.
In the wee hours of the morning the folks at TechCrunch posted their review of TinEye…I bet you know what happened next!
We’ve been so busy today answering emails and inviting users to our awesome beta image search engine that we are just now getting to blogging about it!
If you missed out on the 500 invitations they were giving out not to worry! You can still sign up for our nifty beta via the TinEye website. We will grant additional invitations as soon as we can.
Thank you TechCrunch! This is just the beginning for TinEye.
Yes! You like us!
Our image search engine is the talk of the town! TinEye has hundreds of mentions on blogs, forums and websites around the world!
“Even if this is in private beta, it works perfectly. TinEye is the start of a revolution.” – Razvan Pirnac, trendblogging.org
“tineye.com is an awesome tool. I think it’ll be something we’ll be wondering how we ever lived without in the near future. ” – deadmann, Twitter
(Did you know TinEye is on twitter? Come and say hello!)
The Idéeplex was full of cheers when we heard Patrick Peccatte‘s story about his search for the female officer in one of the many PhotosNormandie photos (a project to discuss and improve images description on WW2 historical photos).
Long a mystery to him and his fellow WWII historians, Patrick used TinEye to see if he could learn more about the officer in the photo.
The result? With just one search, and in just a few seconds, TinEye located the identical photo in Mattie E. Treadwell’s book The Women’s Army Corps, published in 1954! Finally, a name! Lt. Col. Anna Walker Wilson was the very first WAC to arrive in the European Theater of Operations. It is nice to meet you, Lt. Col. Wilson!
We can’t tell you how exciting it is to see the amazing ways our community is using TinEye!
These are fantastic results, even though our index is still small. But it is growing and we believe TinEye is going to change how the world searches for images.
Welcome historians and history buffs to our growing TinEye community!
Hello new friends at deviantART!
It was exciting to find out that Paula and our deviant fans are loving TinEye. We love your photos too!
We are listening to you and working hard at growing the index and adding cool new features to TinEye! It is great to hear all the awesome things you have to say so far:
evile33: “That thing blows me away…”
kkart: “This thing is INCREDIBLE!”
sometimes121: “Amazing .. I really needed this kind of search ..”
“That is news worthy indeed.” We think so! Thanks!
Keep the comments and suggestions coming, we love to hear from you.
We are approving TinEye invites as quickly as we can. If you haven’t received yours or haven’t requested an invitation yet come and visit us at tineye.com! Chop, chop! We’re waiting for you!
TinEye’s community is growing fast!
Our new friend, professional photographer Yanik Chauvin, has a fantastic blog (and several photography sites too!) where he shares tips, product reviews and photography-related tutorials.
We were excited to read Yanik’s recent post about TinEye – it is a hit around the Idéeplex!
We enjoyed it so much we wanted to make sure all of our friends had a chance to read the interview and see the video too.
Thanks Yanik, we are thrilled that our growing community includes creative folks like you!
It’s been a busy week here at Idée and an even busier one for TinEye! Since our TinEye beta launched, we’ve had users from all over the globe trying out our image search engine, providing feedback and sharing their results! And we have to say: we love you, we love your feedback and we are working super hard on the next release.
We were excited when Canada’s only all business specialty channel, the Business News Network (BNN), picked up the TinEye story and featured it on After Hours May 6th.
We were even more excited when they asked us back to do another segment! Leila Boujnane, our CEO, was in studio with Kim Parlee and Andrew Bell on Friday, May 9th to talk about TinEye and the exciting things happening at Idée!
You can watch the five minute segment on Business News Network or pop by our website, we’ll have the link for you in the Press and Events section. Fast forward to 41:20 for the piece.