AuthorLeila Boujnane

TinEye: What’s in a name?

Many of you have asked us where the name “TinEye” originated. We’ll give you a quick hint: ROBOTS. We at Idée love robots, machines, and all things mechanical. In fact, our office is filled with mechanical friends! So a little history: back in 2000 when we were brainstorming cool names for our image recognition technology, it was no surprise that robots came to mind. Not just...

Rock your Firefox with our TinEye add-on

Mozilla just launched Rock Your Firefox which is their campaign to feature Firefox Add-ons. Not surprising since Mozilla pioneered the personalized Web browser with Firefox Add-ons. And our TinEye Firefox Add-On has just been featured!

Let’s say you have gone back in time…

Nice one. Okay. We’re going to assume that you’re on earth and you can read English. So far, so good. But how can you build all the amenities of tomorrow when you’re stuck in the past? Don’t worry your poster has this one covered. and that pretty much sums up why I love TinEye! I had forgotten about Ryan North‘s fantastic Tshirt until I read BiteTheByte blog post...

Help TinEye

We are working on redesigning our TinEye website and introducing a new brand for TinEye. This is exciting for us at the Ideeplex as we have been looking forward to this for a while. As we are working away here,we would like to hear about what improvements and changes you would like to see made to our user interface? Drop us a note in the comments, we would love to hear from you as always or...

TinEye index

Last week we added 28 million images to TinEye and today we topped that by adding 47 million images. The TinEye index is growing and we have more exciting news coming very soon. Happy searching!