Groove Dexter over at groovyPost wrote up a great tutorial on how to use TinEye. It covers finding larger versions of an image, using the ‘Compare Images’ feature to compare similar images, and finding out more information about the subject of an image. Check it out, you might learn something new!
Join TinEye on Facebook
That’s right, TinEye has got a shiny new page on Facebook, and we want you to join us there. Get the latest news about TinEye, find out what other TinEyers are up to, or just join the conversation and fun in general! New blog posts, release notes and tweets are all updated on our Facebook page, so you can get all our news in one convenient location. We’ll be answering your questions...
Nominate TinEye for a Crunchie!
The 2009 Crunchies co-hosted by GigaOM, VentureBeat and TechCrunch are almost here, and we need your votes to nominate TinEye for Best Internet Application and Best Technology Achievement. The Crunchies is a competition and awards show celebrating the best technological achievements of 2009, and we think TinEye our reverse image search engine is definitely amongst the best. Voting closes at...
TinEye API
We are excited to officially launch our TinEye Commercial API. Since we launched TinEye, your most requested feature has been an API. For the non developer community: an API is an ‘application programming interface‘. It is a tool that allows you to access and interface with an existing web-based service, and enables you to develop programs that interact with this service. Our API...
Photoshelter partners with TinEye
What happens when you mix two really great things together? Generally, something super-great. And that’s why the TinEye team is excited to announce our partnership with the good folks over at Photoshelter, a leader in portfolio websites, photo sales and archiving tools for photographers. In a couple of weeks, we’ll be adding the entire Photoshelter image collection to the TinEye...
Maintenance to TinEye
Folks, TinEye is getting an oil change and so he may be periodically unavailable over the next few days. The website may be unreachable for a few moments or even a couple of hours at a time, but don’t worry–we are fixing him up real nice and he’ll be purring like a kitten when he’s out of the shop. Thanks for your patience!
Wikimedia Commons & TinEye
Since the launch of TinEye, we have had a great response from the Wikimedia Commons image community. Wikimedia Commons is a repository of free-content files, including images, that are either in the public domain or released under free licenses. These images are used in many of the Wikimedia Foundation’s projects, including Wikipedia. Anyone can contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and the...
Expanding our TinEye index
Young TinEye is experiencing a growth spurt as of late, and he doesn’t show any signs of stopping. He must be eating his Wheaties. We have been working away on our crawling approaches and our efforts are finally bearing fruit. For the past several weeks the TinEye image index has grown by roughly 2-3 million images per week using a series of new crawling approaches. This is a good...
Using TinEye on a mobile device
Attention iPhone, Blackberry and smartphone junkies! Did you know that you can easily use TinEye to search for images you come across while browsing the web on your phone? Yep, all you need to do is install the TinEye bookmarklet. A bookmarklet is a little script that can be saved as an ordinary bookmark. The TinEye bookmarklet scrapes all of the images from the page you are viewing and sends...
Make search easier: Upload a set of images
Hey! You may not know this, but you can submit the URL of a page that contains many images to TinEye. What will happens is TinEye will scrape the page for images, and let you choose which ones to search for. If you take advantage of browser tabs, you can search for several images at once! Here’s a quick walk-through using some gorgeous photos from Flickr user wili as an example: