Project Codename TinEye Launched in Private Beta

In Image Recognition, Image Search, TinEye Updates

March 27, 2008

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We not-so-quietly launched our internet-wide image search engine codenamed TinEye to our private beta testers today.

TinEye does for images what Google does for text.

Just as you are familiar with entering text in Google to find web pages that contain that text, using TinEye, you enter an image to find pages where that particular image (and modified versions of it) appears.

It’s a big step for us because our algorithms are now thousands of times more efficient than they were just a few years back. Uploading an image, and looking for matches in an index of over 487,000,000 images in real time is now a possibility. It’s something we’ve dreamed of doing for a long time, and now our beta testers are all over it.

Here are some of our favourite search results. The top image is the query image, and beneath it is the results.

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Introducing auto top-up for the TinEye API

In TinEye Updates

March 19, 2021

1 Min read

You can now choose to auto top-up your account when you are running low on searches! The TinEye API is licensed via pre-paid search bundles. Our clients can purchase a search bundle of any size for their integration. This flexible pricing allows our clients to buy searches as and when they need them. The drawback to this flexibility is the need to manually buy more searches when their account is...

Announcing the TinEye extension for Edge

In TinEye Updates

March 1, 2021

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One of the easiest and most popular ways to use TinEye to search the web is with our official browser extensions. Just right-click on an image in your browser, click “Search Image on TinEye”, and see your results. Now, Microsoft Edge users can join Firefox, Chrome and Opera users with the new TinEye extension for Edge!

Search TinEye with copy and paste

In TinEye Updates

March 2, 2020

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Search for an image by pasting it on the TinEye search page

At TinEye, image searching is our passion, and one of our goals is to make it quick and easy for you to search the web for your images. To help with this, we have multiple ways to search an image on TinEye.com: you can give the address for an image on the web, upload an image file or even drag and drop an image file onto the TinEye homepage. We also offer browser extensions for Firefox, Chrome...

Launching our interactive image recognition API documentation

In TinEye Updates

October 8, 2019

2 Min read

In addition to our reverse image search engine TinEye (which is free to use by the way!), we also license our image-recognition solutions in the form APIs that you can integrate into your products and services. When you use one of our APIs, we want you to get up and running as quickly and easily as possible. To help with that, we’ve launched all new API documentation. The updated...