TinEye fans: TinEye is offline at the moment and we are working around the clock to complete our updates to get it back online. Please be patient with us as this may take a few more hours.
TinEye Firefox Add-on Update
TinEye fans: we have a little update for our TinEye Firefox Add-on. We have added the ability to search for images on your own computer (i.e. file:// URLs) and for images on secure websites (i.e. https:// URLs). Our TinEye add-on now sends the raw image data when the image URL starts with file:// or https://. This means that you will be able to search for images you encounter when you are on a...
1,882,458,529
Well we know it is not 2 billion images but close!
Another little TinEye index update of 19 million images. Are there yet? Are there yet?
Almost!
36. The answer is 36.
We added 36 million new images to the TinEye index. Happy searching TinEye fans!
TinEye to the rescue!
Eden Tyler is one of our latest TinEye fans! She is a writer who has been hunting down a book cover image for her latest book. She shared her story with us: “I found a picture while searching for faeries one night and I saw one that was beyond perfect for the cover for my novel, which is being released this spring. I used Google Goggles and searched everywhere … high and low …...
Magic!
From Mixed Media Bag:
It’s 2011 and I don’t have a real robot or flying car nor have I been to outer space, but it’s still the little things that technology does to simplify random processes that wows me.
We are humbled!
TinEye the movie quiz killer?
Vagebond from the Netherlands writes: Because of all of the recent commotion about reverse image search tools like TinEye – but mainly just for the fun of it – I created a new type of quiz that is TinEye proof no doubt. It’s not harder or easier than our regular episodes of MovieQuiz, just ‘different’. And what Vagebond means is that he prepared a special Movie Quiz...
Photography as theater
We love hearing from our TinEye fans because that’swhat keeps us going every day and that’s how we discover awesome photography. For example: the work of Roberto Kusterle. Here is Sophie’s story:
TinEye status
TinEye is down at the moment. We are looking into this and will update as soon as we have a handle on the situation. Stay tuned. Sorry about this outage.
Update: 19:35.
We are back online. Happy searching.
TinEye index
23 million images have been added to the TinEye index bringing our index to 1,823,535,745. Looks like a 2 billion image index is right around the corner for TinEye!
Happy searching fans!
Photograph (c) Thomas Hawk