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Where in the world are your photos?

Omar Gallaga’s post “Where in the world wide Web are your photos?” caught my eye today for a few reasons. There’s a great citizen journalist story wrapped up in there, along with some thoughts on Creative Commons, copyright and giving your images away for free. One quote I found particularly interesting was: Share your photos with the world, or hide them behind virtual...

Nameless burger joint found!

Last month I was visiting a friend in New York who took me to this great, albeit hard to find, burger joint hidden away on the ground floor of a swanky Manhattan hotel. It was tiny, lively and tasty and I was trying to remember its name so I could tell another friend about it, but I couldn’t. In fact, I’m not sure it even has a name. I never saw a menu because all they sell is burgers...

Piet Mondrian, TinEye and our fans

Our beta image search engine, TinEye, has been adopted by folks from across the photography sphere. On Flickr, deviantART, Digital Photography Review and so many other forums we’re hearing great stories about how you are using TinEye and what you think of our search engine. And not to forget our blogger friends! We read all your posts, your first impressions, your image discoveries (check...

TinEye helps UK photographer recover revenues

Colin Bell read about TinEye on a US photographers forum. He ran some of his images through our image search engine and came up with some interesting finds. One website (of a “rather well known organization” he politely says, not mentioning any names) stepped right up when he brought the use of his image to their attention. They offered to pay Colin and after a quick negotiation the...

TinEye and watermarks

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...

TinEye has a keen eye for images

TinEye is certainly busy searching up a storm.  It is great to see so many nifty search results and to find out how our beta image search engine is helping you locate images online. From photoshopped cows to book cover artwork, TinEye is finding amazing matches.
Here are just a few of the recent cool searches that have been submitted to us by TinEye fans from around the globe…

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.