The 2009 Crunchies co-hosted by GigaOM, VentureBeat and TechCrunch are almost here, and we need your votes to nominate TinEye for Best Internet Application and Best Technology Achievement. The Crunchies is a competition and awards show celebrating the best technological achievements of 2009, and we think TinEye our reverse image search engine is definitely amongst the best. Voting closes at...
TinEye API
We are excited to officially launch our TinEye Commercial API. Since we launched TinEye, your most requested feature has been an API. For the non developer community: an API is an ‘application programming interface‘. It is a tool that allows you to access and interface with an existing web-based service, and enables you to develop programs that interact with this service. Our API...
TinEye and browser extensions
We spend a significant amount of time in the Ideeplex looking over and analyzing data. We work with extremely large data sets (images typically) and it is always interesting to see what rises up to the surface once you dive in.
TinEye Firefox Extension = Awesomesauce
We thought enabling you to search for an image using an images was the apogée of search. The nec plus ultra, the ultimate … well you get my drift. Using TinEye you still had to upload an image or feed TinEye a URL. For those of you still unfamiliar with TinEye (how is that possible?):
Photoshelter partners with TinEye
What happens when you mix two really great things together? Generally, something super-great. And that’s why the TinEye team is excited to announce our partnership with the good folks over at Photoshelter, a leader in portfolio websites, photo sales and archiving tools for photographers. In a couple of weeks, we’ll be adding the entire Photoshelter image collection to the TinEye...
Maintenance to TinEye
Folks, TinEye is getting an oil change and so he may be periodically unavailable over the next few days. The website may be unreachable for a few moments or even a couple of hours at a time, but don’t worry–we are fixing him up real nice and he’ll be purring like a kitten when he’s out of the shop. Thanks for your patience!
TinEye on CNN
TinEye, our reverse image search engine, ended up on CNN with Kyra Phillips. Lucky TinEye!
During this segment, CNN’s Kyra Phillips talks to virtual safety expert Christine Durst about protecting your family photos online. Have a listen:
Surprising what TinEye can unearth, like say an older photograph of Kyra Phillips being used on a Latin American online clinic website!
Wikimedia Commons & TinEye
Since the launch of TinEye, we have had a great response from the Wikimedia Commons image community. Wikimedia Commons is a repository of free-content files, including images, that are either in the public domain or released under free licenses. These images are used in many of the Wikimedia Foundation’s projects, including Wikipedia. Anyone can contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and the...
Expanding our TinEye index
Young TinEye is experiencing a growth spurt as of late, and he doesn’t show any signs of stopping. He must be eating his Wheaties. We have been working away on our crawling approaches and our efforts are finally bearing fruit. For the past several weeks the TinEye image index has grown by roughly 2-3 million images per week using a series of new crawling approaches. This is a good...
TinEye earns a star
TinEye helps Sheila Smart recover 1000 euros and that makes us happy. Here is her image and its unlicensed usage on a book cover: