- TinEye got TechCrunch’d!
“I’ve seen my fair share of image search demos, and they usually promise far more than they deliver. But last week, I finally saw one that deserves the name. It is called TinEye.” wrote Erick Schonfeld of, you got it, TechCrunch.
In the wee hours of the morning the folks at TechCrunch posted their review of TinEye…I bet you know what happened next!
We’ve been so busy today answering emails and inviting users to our awesome beta image search engine that we are just now getting to blogging about it!
If you missed out on the 500 invitations they were giving out not to worry! You can still sign up for our nifty beta via the TinEye website. We will grant additional invitations as soon as we can.
Thank you TechCrunch! This is just the beginning for TinEye.
- Project Codename TinEye Launched in Private Beta
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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- Idée Inc in Canadian Business Magazine
On Canadian newsstands now is a Canadian Business magazine article and photospread revealing the juicy past, present and future of the good folks at Idée. Lots of interesting tidbits in the article which is
notpresently available online.
- My Domain Kingdom for $750,000?
Yes. Via Silicon Alley Insider: CNN acquired ireport.com for a wooping $750,000. ireport.com will support CNN’s amateur or user contributed video submissions of current events.
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