Hey TinEye fans, we have been extremely busy wrapping up our image alerts release – which you shall be seeing soon – and re architecting so our image index update is tiny this time around: 4.7 million images to bring up our index to 1,958,654,947. Happy searching and enjoy your summer! The snow has melted in Toronto and Zazie, our TinEye HQ dog is looking forward to enjoying her...
TinEye is heading to Calgary!
Our next hacking event as part of HackDays is happening in Calgary. We just wrapped up our Waterloo Hackathon and are looking forward to meeting Calgary developers in June. If you are not familiar with our hackathons: we organize monthly hacking events that bring together the brightest developers across Canada. We work together in a day, in a space to hack and create awesome applications using...
Mon Dieu St Hubert!
The folks at Trip Advisor Guide probably thought that no one would notice the resemblance but the sharp eyes of Jason Kealey and TinEye were no match for photoshop skills.
CP24 NEWS Y U NO CHECK PHOTO SOURCE!
Hat tip to our TinEye fan @adamgoucher for this little gem:
TinEye Forums
We just migrated our TinEye forums to Vanilla. We are still working on improving the forum design but you can already check out the new TinEye forums. We have been terrible at answering TinEye questions in our forum and informing our TinEye fans. That’s all going to change with the new forum! So, drop by, give us some feedback, ask us questions and let’s get a conversation started!
Giving credit: always credit your source
A few weeks ago I came across Pia, Erin and Yvette‘s Giving Credit poster. I can’t tell you how excited I was because that’s something that is on our minds constantly – except that we sometimes call it “attribution”.
PsychicSearch
Soon you too will be able to search for images without a keyboard. From your brain to the screen and badaboom results! Why did we not think about Psychic Search – from the good folks at Alamy. And here we are slaving away at improving image recognition!
Psychic Search
TinEye IE addon
We have updated our TinEye Internet Explorer extension. Our TinEye IE extension already gave our IE users snappy single click searching so what improvements did we make? Well, bug fixes that were bothering our TinEye fans! We: Fixed a bug where the extension sometimes failed to work for images from a Google image search in IE8 Added better handling of background images Fixed a bug where our...
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And another 12 million images were added to the TinEye index at the end of last week ( and we forgot to tell you!) and today another 12 million images bringing the TinEye image index to 1,918,458,529. Happy searching!
[photograph by Neal]
TinEye update
A small TinEye update for you fans: 12 million images added to the TinEye index. Bringing our database image index to 1,894,458,529.
[Photograph (c) Umberto Salvagin]