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Share TinEye search results with friends

Question: When you happen upon some really great TinEye search results, what do you do? Well you can selfishly keep that precious gem all to yourself (Scrooge), or you can spread the wealth! We’ve just made it dead simple to share interesting TinEye search results with the internets. Click or hover over our new ‘Share’ button and pick your poison: Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon...

Save precious time: TinEye Mozilla add-on and extensions! <3

Click, BAM. Click, BAM. No, that’s not a grenade–that’s just the peaceful sound of the TinEye browser extension providing you with instant search satisfaction! If you are running Firefox or Internet Explorer and you have not installed the TinEye browser extension, you don’t know what you’re missing. Just right-click on any image from wherever you happen to be on...

TinEye now with the ability to sort image search results

A new release is here, and many of you will be happy to know that you can now sort your TinEye search results by both image size and match proximity. This was your most requested feature to date. The sort function is located above your search results, on the right-hand side of the page. To sort your results, simply select which option you would like from the pull-down list. TinEye will remember...

TinEye: Sleuth in Advertising

Camera shopping is hard work. Over the past ten years I’ve purchased three digital cameras, and each purchase was more difficult than the last. Thankfully sites like Digital Photography Review, and Steve’s Digicams have made it easier because the camera companies are not exactly objective. The DSC-T3 viewfinder image is a film-camera stock photo that predates the DSC-T3 by years. One thing...

TinEye now in open beta

Greetings, TinEyers! Good news for those of you looking for invites to share with friends, or those of you who have not had a chance to create an account yet. TinEye is now in open beta, which means that signup is instant and anyone can join the fun! To create a free, instant account, just visit the TinEye website and click on the ‘Sign up now!’ link. You will need to verify your...

Nameless burger joint found!

Last month I was visiting a friend in New York who took me to this great, albeit hard to find, burger joint hidden away on the ground floor of a swanky Manhattan hotel. It was tiny, lively and tasty and I was trying to remember its name so I could tell another friend about it, but I couldn’t. In fact, I’m not sure it even has a name. I never saw a menu because all they sell is burgers...

New TinEye Features are Here

Well, the new features aren’t ‘here’ exactly–you’ll have to go to TinEye for that. But starting today you can read all about the latest features and improvements being released for TinEye right here on the Idée Blog. Find out straight from the source what’s new, what’s in the works, and maybe even catch a sneak preview or two… We have a tasty set of...

Project Codename TinEye Launched in Private Beta

We not-so-quietly launched our internet-wide image search engine codenamed TinEye to our private beta testers today.
TinEye does for images what Google does for text.
Just as you are familiar with entering text in Google to find web pages that contain that text, using TinEye, you enter an image to find pages where that particular image (and modified versions of it) appears.