- TinEye Maintenance
TinEye will be going off line at 15:00 today for 2 hours. Maintenance time! Head to our multicolor lab for some fun searching in the meantime.
- 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:
Start with a web page that contains several images which you would like to search. We used wili’s Explore! set on Flickr:
You’ll need the URL for this page to submit it to TinEye. Copy it from your browser’s navigation bar by selecting the full text, and then choosing ‘Copy’ from your right-click context menu or using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C:
Paste the URL into TinEye where it says ‘Paste URL here’, and click Search:
TinEye will go to that URL and scrape all the images visible on that page (up to 15 images at a time):
Clicking on an image will allow you to search for it. However if you take advantage of browser tabs you can search for several of the images at once. For example in Firefox this can be done by selecting ‘Open Link in New Tab’ from the right-click context menu, or by holding the Ctrl button as you click on the image.
TinEye conveniently displays a tiny thumbnail (favicon) of the image you selected as well as the number of results found on every new tab that is opened:
Those tabs will all load in the background as soon as you create them, so you can go from TinEye result to TinEye result seamlessly!
If you like this functionality, you may want to install the TinEye bookmarklet, which lets you skip having to cut and paste a URL into TinEye. Instead, when you’re on a page with lots of images, you just select the TinEye bookmarklet from your browser’s bookmarks and you’ll jump right to the ‘Select and image’ page on TinEye.
Give it a try and tell us what you think!
- 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, Digg, email or your blog… admit it, you’re a social media butterfly.
- Times of India caught red handed!
Rapchik’s blog this morning unearthed a great TinEye find on The Times of India – of course as we speak The Times of India is probably cleaning up its gallery but see for yourselves:
That’s Kareena Kapor who is an Indian film actress. But TinEye and
and hey, isn’t that Jennifer Lopez? The TinEye search results agree:
Visit the TinEye search page above and click on “Compare Images” under the first search result to see the photoshoping in action!
And who said Monday mornings can’t be fun! Thanks Rapchik.
- Fantasticism
That’s a word I have never used!
Fantasticism Fan*tas”ti*cism\, n. The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality.
Well, that’s how Garrett describes our Multicolr Lab!
- TinEye will save your sanity!
not my words, but the words of The Future Mrs. Darcy. We agree!
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