CategoryImage Search

The Everywhere Girl is truly loved by everyone!

As most of you know I track the Everywhere Girl appearances and when I have time I even update my blog post. Today this is a quick post as I just used TinEye and landed on the Microsoft Finland page with you guessed it…the Everywhere Girl on the home page. If you are not familiar with the Everywhere Girl, start your adventures here and here.

TinEye Podcast

I had a great time talking with Jim Goldstein about TinEye and his podcast is now available for your listening. Jim Goldstein is a stunning independent photographer who has photographed some of my favourite locations in the world including Point Reyes. I am in California next week and I will be running here. If you have any questions about the podcast: I am listening at lboujnane (@) ideeinc.com...

TinEye gets Popular! Popular Photography magazine, that is!

Pop over to PopPhoto.com for the latest coverage on TinEye. Our beta image search engine is featured on the PopPhoto website and that’s just fantastic. I know there will be more TinEye fans soon. “Boujnane and Idée are on to something very smart with TinEye.” the article notes. We’re glad they think so, we keep hearing that from our great community of beta testers too...

TinEye offers students a new way to search!

We love the idea that TinEye could make learning and education a little bit easier! That’s why we were so pleased to read Linda Braun’s post on teenagers and the world of search. “It’s important for librarians serving teens to recognize the search tools that are preferred by the age group. Searchme and TinEye are particularly good for those teens who are visual and who might be...

TinEye got TechCrunch’d!

“I’ve seen my fair share of image search demos, and they usually promise far more than they deliver. But last week, I finally saw one that deserves the name. It is called TinEye.” wrote Erick Schonfeld of, you got it, TechCrunch. In the wee hours of the morning the folks at TechCrunch posted their review of TinEye…I bet you know what happened next! We’ve been so busy today...

Thank you TinEye Community!

It’s been a busy week here at Idée and an even busier one for TinEye! Since our TinEye beta launched, we’ve had users from all over the globe trying out our image search engine, providing feedback and sharing their results! And we have to say: we love you, we love your feedback and we are working super hard on the next release.

Spot the iPhone!

Over a year ago Jason Kottke photoshopped a Windows desktop onto an iPhone and posted it on his very popular blog. Yesterday it was spotted on an Australian TV news show. Today, I used TinEye to see if indeed this wonderful photoshopped iPhone (I mean who would not want an iPhone running Windows XP) could be spotted anywhere else. And you guessed it: this little image is famous! The iPhone...

Big Index! Getting Bigger…

Indices…That’s what dreams are made of! Our TinEye search index is approaching 500,000,000 images; that’s half a billion folks!

Killer Kitten on TinEye. View full size.
Half a billion may sound like a lot, doesn’t it? Well, it is really just the beginning and that’s a tiny portion of all the images online today.

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.