One of the challenges faced by microstock photographers is building a portfolio of images in use. Odds are that once an image is purchased it’s unlikely that the photographer will hear back about how and where that image was used. How do you demonstrate that your work is in demand? What if you just want to show your published work to friends and family? As we’ve heard...
Locating original images with TinEye
Veggurl posted a query on Yahoo!Answers a few weeks ago asking “Could you please help me find the original image? I found this photo on photobucket. It has been modified. I am desperate to find the original photo. I have tried searching on Google and Yahoo, no luck. Can someone help me? Thank you.” Here’s the image she posted: Unfortunately the only response didn’t help...
New TinEye Features are Here
Well, the new features aren’t ‘here’ exactly–you’ll have to go to TinEye for that. But starting today you can read all about the latest features and improvements being released for TinEye right here on the Idée Blog. Find out straight from the source what’s new, what’s in the works, and maybe even catch a sneak preview or two… We have a tasty set of...
TinEye, Crawl This Site
We know your images are out there, and our beta image search engine sometimes doesn’t find the ones that you know are online. That’s okay, we’re still growing, and you can help us. Did you know you can submit a site to TinEye for indexing? We’re constantly crawling the web for new content so if you know of a particular website that would be useful for us to add to the...
TinEye: Image Search Top Dog!
John Conroy’s 75 Bleeding-Edge Search Engines To Beat Google puts TinEye in the “Top Dog” slot for Image and Photo Search Engines, saying “this thing is gonna be big, boys and girls.”
Stock Photo Help Desk Lady
It seems like data room lady has a challenger. TinEye found “stock photo help desk lady” in over 40 places on the web. You can check out the TinEye search to see all the results or request an invite if you don’t have a beta account. Help desk lady is busy! She works for so many companies… impressive! While she is no competition for Everywhere Girl, it’s still pretty...
Taking the lead in visual search
Idée and TinEye get a nod from Tom Keenan in ‘Cloud computing a down-to-earth solution’ from last month’s Business Edge. Keenan says “Idée is definitely in the visual search-engine lead.” Yes we are!
Snazzy New TinEye Widgets
With all the requests for new widgets, how could we say no? As we don’t have an easy way for our fans to create their own widgets using TinEye, we decided to do that for them. Today we are rolling out a shiny new set, six new ones to go along with Mona, Tux and George. We picked the most requested images from all our fans to create our latest “TinEye flow” widgets. Embeddable at...
TinEye Around the World
Thank goodness for translation software as TinEye has been traveling the world. So what’s the latest? I have only a vague (google translated) idea of what Robert Kneschke is saying here but I do know he’s a fan and that he writes lovely things about us in German. Vielen Dank Robert! Kaly from makeuseof.com also reviewed TinEye on their site. TinEye. Let the games begin is from our...
Meanwhile, somewhere in the East… a TinEye story
Scott Liddell scored a TinEye beta invitation yesterday and I have to say, he has some lovely finds. Using TinEye, Scott searched for his images in our index of over 700 million images and came up with some surprising results! Scott shares on his blog: And someone at HP seems to really like my fruit because it seems to be in quite a few places. So do Channel 4, in the guise of that odious jobbie...