- TinEye now with the ability to sort image search results
A new release is here, and many of you will be happy to know that you can now sort your TinEye search results by both image size and match proximity. This was your most requested feature to date.
The sort function is located above your search results, on the right-hand side of the page. To sort your results, simply select which option you would like from the pull-down list. TinEye will remember your selection for the duration of your session.
“Biggest image first/last” allows you to view your results by image dimension, from largest to smallest or smallest to largest, respectively. This is a great way to get the highest resolution version of your search image.
“Closest match first/last” allows you to view the most similar image results first (the default), or move those images to the end and view the results with the most modifications first. Modified or digitally edited images are often quite interesting, so be sure to give this option a whirl!
For all the details on this week’s release, check out our What’s New page. And for the perpetually curious, we have updated our FAQ page, which is also now visible without a TinEye login. Happy searching!
- TinEye: a photographer’s best friend
In Visual search engine is photographer’s best friend PC Pro’s Stuart Turton takes a peek at TinEye and some applications of our image identification technology.
Turton also notes:
TinEye could provide an entirely new way for image companies and amateur photographers to track how and where their images are being used, without the need for digital watermarks.
Yes, TinEye can. TinEye answers two simple questions for anyone: “where is an image appearing” and “how is it being used?”. If you are wondering “where” and “how” then TinEye is for you. And we have some great plans for our users.
- TinEye now in open beta
Greetings, TinEyers! Good news for those of you looking for invites to share with friends, or those of you who have not had a chance to create an account yet. TinEye is now in open beta, which means that signup is instant and anyone can join the fun!
To create a free, instant account, just visit the TinEye website and click on the ‘Sign up now!’ link. You will need to verify your email address first, but once you’re done you can go ahead and search to your heart’s content.
And if you are as excited about TinEye as we are (and believe me, we’re an excitable bunch), then feel free to spread the word.
Photo by Justin Marty
- Managing your Tineye account
We’re thrilled with our growing community of TinEye fans. We’re glad to have each one of you, but we also know that sometimes folks want to delete accounts (for whatever reason) and you should be able to do that with TinEye too.
Now you can. If you need to delete your beta account just click on the profile tab in the top right corner of your browser window when signed into TinEye. The delete option is at the bottom of the profile page.
While you don’t have to tell us the reason, if you do decide TinEye’s not for you we would certainly like to hear why.
Because we’re in beta if you delete your account you’ll have to re-register and wait for your new account in order to get another. Just sayin’!
- TinEye new release: bookmarklet, landing page and more
Hello TinEyers! The TinEye team was busy this week, but we’ve rolled out a great new release. Below are some of the features and updates you will notice on your next visit.
To start off, our landing page has a new look and now links to a ‘What’s New’ section where you can get info on all our recent releases and updates. You will also notice an updated TinEye landing page with links to the latest TinEye widgets and the Idée blog.
For those fans of the TinEye plugin, we’ve also introduced a TinEye bookmarklet! The bookmarklet works on any web page with any javascript-enabled browser, and allows you to choose one of several images for searching.
Similarly, TinEye can now accept actual web page URLs for searching, as well as image URLs. Just paste a page URL into the search field — TinEye will grab all the images from that page, and ask you to select the one you want to be searched. Go on, give it a try already!
Finally, we have updated our Terms of Service.
That’s it, folks. Have a great weekend and keep searching.
- 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 releases lined up for the next few weeks, but to whet your palette we’ll start with something simple: Less scrolling.
In today’s release, we are tidying up the search results page by limiting the number of backlinks that are initially visible in your search results. This means that if TinEye finds your image 46 times on the same website (if the image was used as an avatar, for example), we will only show you the first 2 links to that image on the website, and then allow you to jump to a secondary page with the complete list of 46 backlinks.
So your main results page will be cleaner, and you won’t have to scroll as much. This is an image search engine after all and image search results are what we want you to see!
- 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 index, let us know.We review every submission and consider them for crawling.* Image Alistair Morton
- 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 two sizes, our hero from the 300 movie, Hello Kitty and more join the original Mona Lisa in the widget gallery.
Creating them has been an interesting process. A successful widget requires a nifty query image (one that’s popular and often photoshopped), hundreds (if not thousands) of TinEye search results and interesting and creative edits from all over the web.
And these aren’t all. Check out the widget gallery on the TinEye site for more of our new widgets.
Need an invitation to our image search engine beta? You can request one, it’s quick and easy.
Did we miss an image that you think would be a great widget? Let us know.
- TinEye Feature: Favicons
Our Ryan has a post up about favicons in TinEye. Before the implementation of the favicons on TinEye it was kind of painful to keep track of the searches that you did, and if you are like us you are doing a lot of searches on TinEye, opening new tabs all the time and you end up with say 20 tabs open and no idea of which TinEye search was completed in what tab. Favicons come to the rescue. If you are not familiar with a favicon: it is basically the little icon that appears on the tab of the website you are visiting. So what happens within TinEye: we create a dynamic favicon based on the query image.
- Watch our CTO Paul Bloore demo TinEye for Robert Scoble
Our CTO demos TinEye at the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit. Check out the Scobleizer Qik video from this morning in Redmond!
In Scoble’s words “Wow…that’s crazy technology”!
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