Make search easier: Upload a set of images

Hey! You may not know this, but you can submit the URL of a page that contains many images to TinEye. What will happens is TinEye will scrape the page for images, and let you choose which ones to search for. If you take advantage of browser tabs, you can search for several images at once! Here’s a quick walk-through using some gorgeous photos from Flickr user wili as an example:

Share TinEye search results with friends

Question: When you happen upon some really great TinEye search results, what do you do? Well you can selfishly keep that precious gem all to yourself (Scrooge), or you can spread the wealth! We’ve just made it dead simple to share interesting TinEye search results with the internets. Click or hover over our new ‘Share’ button and pick your poison: Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon...

Sorting TinEye search results

This is not new but since I have seen a string of email queries about sorting TinEye results, here is a little how to. First of all: yes, you can sort TinEye results. TinEye sorts results by: best match worst match biggest image smallest image By default, your results are sorted by ‘best match’. What that means is that TinEye will list the best match to your search query as the first...

Seeing more than double!

Derek has a great little article about TinEye and the future of image recognition driven search over at About the Image. Since the launch of TinEye I have been keeping an eye out for images that I constantly see being used in outreach and marketing campaigns and I have noticed quite a few Everywhere Girls. I am very tempted to start a TinEye tracker just for business women with glasses or a girl...

How to find your avatar twin

David Sarokin has a pretty fun post on eHow about how to find your twin avatar. He of course uses TinEye for avatar identification. I headed over to Avatarist and did some of my own avatar searches: and here you have it:

Time to go and checkout where your friends’ avatars are hanging out!