You asked for it, and we are happy to deliver. The TinEye extension for Chrome is now live, and ready to make your searching a little easier. Instructions for installing the extension can be found on our browser extensions page, or you can just jump right over to the Chrome Extensions site and click ‘Install’. It’s that easy! While you’re there, be sure to check out our...
TinEye planned downtime for Feb 9th @ 10am EST
Just a head’s up that we have some planned downtime for TinEye scheduled for Tuesday February 9th @ 10am EST. We will be doing some behind-the-scenes maintenance and TinEye should only be offline for about an hour. Thanks for your patience.
Photo by Jakob Montrasio
TinEye now accepting image collection submissions
TinEye has just one goal in life: To connect images and information. Whether that means finding the original author of an image, finding out where an image has been used on the web, or finding out more information about an image in general, TinEye wants to help you find the information you’re looking for. And the bigger our database of images, the better!
A groovy TinEye tutorial
Groove Dexter over at groovyPost wrote up a great tutorial on how to use TinEye. It covers finding larger versions of an image, using the ‘Compare Images’ feature to compare similar images, and finding out more information about the subject of an image. Check it out, you might learn something new!
Join TinEye on Facebook
That’s right, TinEye has got a shiny new page on Facebook, and we want you to join us there. Get the latest news about TinEye, find out what other TinEyers are up to, or just join the conversation and fun in general! New blog posts, release notes and tweets are all updated on our Facebook page, so you can get all our news in one convenient location. We’ll be answering your questions...
Who created that image? TinEye adds the iStockphoto and Photoshelter collections.
We are happy to announce that TinEye our reverse image search engine has grown its index again adding over 32 million images including the entire iStockphoto and Photoshelter image collections. This is great news for photographers, image buyers and anyone interested in copyright compliance and attribution.
TinEye Firefox add-on
Thanks TinEye fans! Our TinEye Firefox add-on broke 500,000 downloads this week. We are excited!
Photo authenticity in reporting
As TinEye scoops PEI news in the CBC reporting today I can’t help but think about the two blog posts that have been brewing in my head for a little while now: Authenticity of photographs in reporting (or editorial news) and Photo credits: and by photo credits I mean providing appropriate photo credits at all time. So there will be soon a longer blog post about both, in the meantime enjoy...
All systems go for TinEye
We have dealt with our TinEye slow downs. And everything is back to normal. If you notice any slow downs, let us know. Happy searching.
TinEye is slowing down
TinEye friends, TinEye is experiencing a bit of a slowdown today. We are looking into things and hope to figure out what’s going on and fix it before you guys experience any TinEye withdrawals.
(Photo by Ross Orr)