As you all know I am a big fan of the Everywhere Girl – in as much as I collect all her appearances online and in print, but I decided to expand my collection: I am now on the lookout for the most used business images, the most used dog, most used cat in advertising. Have you seen this image? I bet you have! And so did TinEye… And how about the proverbial business handshake? Have you...
Image tracking
And because we are in the business of tracking where images appear for our clients, this “shooting Britney” article from The Atlantic is a great read! The evolution of Hollywood paparazzi from a marginal nuisance to one of the most powerful and lucrative forces driving the American news-gathering industry is a phenomenon that dates back to March 2002, when a women’s magazine editor...
Conversations still matter
We have been doing a lot of that in the last little while to get feedback for some of products and services. When we launched TinEye we made sure that we were accessible and responsive to our users, fans and simply folks who had questions about it. That meant a lot of conversations, a lot emails and a lot of presentations. That’s worked out really well because we managed to distill...
Help me search
Alex at ReadWriteWeb has a great post about the future of computer applications where he explains that: Software is increasingly polarized into utilities and entertainment. Utilities help us work and are becoming more rigorous. We’re looking for helpful software that understands our context and guides us through the process, whether it is search or a complex business task. I believe that...
TinEye is back
Well folks TinEye is back online, thanks to S3 being back. Ouch. How is that for a poke in the TinEye. Sorry about the interruption, searching resumes now.
TinEye private investigator
John Arrington’s review of TinEye just landed in my inbox forwarded by a colleague and that would have been just an awesome read if I had not woken up this morning to TinEye being down! We are in the office, getting rolling on bringing it back, the team is being hawled out of bed as we speak (happy Sunday!). There is no rest for the wicked! This is the first down time we have experienced so...
TinEye and the data lady (a romantic search adventure)
Stéphane Lee pointed me yesterday to the Data Lady. This lady is going to be added to my Everywhere Girl fascination! The Data Lady is a stock photograph of a lady that is being used in a lot of data center websites, collocation websites, large database company websites and of course web hosting sites… you get the picture. Stephane used TinEye to find where else she is appearing and of...
Google experiments with crowdsourcing search (results)
Justin Hileman has a great little post about one Google’s latest experiment for search engine results page (SERP); this experiment allows users to influence their search experience by adding, moving and removing search results. Justin explains how it works and talks about his experiments here.
TinEye Feature: Favicons
Our Ryan has a post up about favicons in TinEye. Before the implementation of the favicons on TinEye it was kind of painful to keep track of the searches that you did, and if you are like us you are doing a lot of searches on TinEye, opening new tabs all the time and you end up with say 20 tabs open and no idea of which TinEye search was completed in what tab. Favicons come to the rescue. If you...
Yahoo’s BOSS
Last week Yahoo introduced BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) . BOSS is Yahoo!’s open search web services platform. This could be interesting. I am curious to see what developers and other start-ups may use BOSS for and if any interesting web-scale search products will see the light using BOSS. I personally would like to utilize the entire Yahoo image search index :) I see BOSS as allowing...