One of the questions we hear quite often is about watermarks on images. Is it better to search with the watermark on the image or search using the original without a watermark? For TinEye, typically images with visible watermarks should be avoided. TinEye views the watermark as part of the image and may find matches for the watermark rather than for the rest of the image.
Happy searching!
Bloody clever
Photographer Adrian Carmody over on redbubble says TinEye is “a bloody clever way of searching for your images.” Well, our image search engine is the first of its kind, able to find your images online without keywords or metadata — clever indeed! The way it matches images is incredibly unique. It doesn’t search on file name or size. I tried with thumbnails of my images, and it...
Managing your Tineye account
We’re thrilled with our growing community of TinEye fans. We’re glad to have each one of you, but we also know that sometimes folks want to delete accounts (for whatever reason) and you should be able to do that with TinEye too. Now you can. If you need to delete your beta account just click on the profile tab in the top right corner of your browser window when signed into TinEye. The...
TinEye release: bookmarklet, landing page and more
Hello TinEyers! The TinEye team was busy this week, but we’ve rolled out a great new release. Below are some of the features and updates you will notice on your next visit.
Have you seen this image?
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...
Social media tools to track brand reputation
Rohit Bhargava from Ogilvy’s Digital Influence blog shares his picks for the top six new social media tools for tracking brand reputation. Look who’s in the number three spot.
Hat tip to Ogilvy’s John Stauffer who mentioned the post to me and introduced me to the 360 blog. We’ll be talking to John about tracking client brand images online in a later post.
Locating original images with TinEye
Veggurl posted a query on Yahoo!Answers a few weeks ago asking “Could you please help me find the original image? I found this photo on photobucket. It has been modified. I am desperate to find the original photo. I have tried searching on Google and Yahoo, no luck. Can someone help me? Thank you.” Here’s the image she posted: Unfortunately the only response didn’t help...
New TinEye Features are Here
Well, the new features aren’t ‘here’ exactly–you’ll have to go to TinEye for that. But starting today you can read all about the latest features and improvements being released for TinEye right here on the Idée Blog. Find out straight from the source what’s new, what’s in the works, and maybe even catch a sneak preview or two… We have a tasty set of...
TinEye finds your image sources
Sometimes people ask us, what exactly can you use TinEye for? Well, there’s a long list, but here’s just one example of a great way to use our image search engine. Mitchell liked an image he found on the website pixdaus.com and posted it to his friendfeed. Unfortunately, the photographer’s name was missing and there was no link to the original image source. On friendfeed you can...
TinEye, Crawl This Site
We know your images are out there, and our beta image search engine sometimes doesn’t find the ones that you know are online. That’s okay, we’re still growing, and you can help us. Did you know you can submit a site to TinEye for indexing? We’re constantly crawling the web for new content so if you know of a particular website that would be useful for us to add to the...