Yay, more Chrome love! Today the Google Chrome extension gallery featured our TinEye extension as a front-page “Top Pick”:

And Apple’s new Safari Extension Gallery has featured the TinEye extension in the “Photo” category:

We are happy to be featured with the best and brightest. Don’t forget that our extensions are also available for Firefox and IE, as well as a hack for Opera.

Happy searching, everyone!

We have extension fever here at TinEye HQ, and apparently it’s catching.

Last week, the Google Blog included TinEye in their list of favourite Chrome extensions as chosen by the Chrome team themselves. And with over 30,000 downloads, TinEye has also been selected as featured Chrome extension!

We are also excited to see that the TinEye Firefox add-on has over 845,000 downloads. Can’t wait to see that number grow to one million!

If you haven’t yet installed the TinEye extension for Chrome, Firefox, Safari or IE, head over to our goodies page and take your pick. Happy searching!

When we announced our new Safari plugin, we mentioned that TinEye extension preferences were on their way for Firefox and Chrome. And now they’re here!

The new extension preferences allow you to:

• Show/hide TinEye icon in context menu (Firefox only)
• Set sort order preference as best match, most changed biggest image or last used*
• Open searches in background, foreground or current tab

TinEye extension preferences are easy to set!

In Firefox, go to Tools>Add-ons in the Firefox menu bar. Locate ‘TinEye Reverese Image search’ in the Add-ons window list and click the ‘Options’ button.

In Chrome, go to Tools>Extensions in the Chrome menu bar. Locate ‘TinEye Reverese Image search’ in the extensions list and click the ‘Options’ link.

We hope you enjoy! <3

* The sort order set in your extension preferences will take precedence over your browser’s last remembered sort order.

Mozilla just launched Rock Your Firefox which is their campaign to feature Firefox Add-ons. Not surprising since Mozilla pioneered the personalized Web browser with Firefox Add-ons. And our TinEye Firefox Add-On has just been featured!

Keep an eye on Rock Your Firefox as the site will feature reviews, feedback, and insights from people around the Web who are using Firefox Add-ons to make their online experience better. And you may find one or two Firefox add-ons that will transform your browsing life!

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TinEye browser extensions make searching for image-use faster and easier! Our newest extension for Chrome was unveiled earlier this month on the Chrome Extensions site. Once installed, just click on the TinEye button on your Chrome toolbar, and the extension looks through the page you’re on for all images.  Click on the image you want, and voila! TinEye whirls into action.

Our Chrome extension follows the brilliant success of the TinEye Firefox add-on. Over 500,000 downloads and growing, the plugin adds a right-click menu item to allow you to search any image on the net against TinEye’s index. Maximum PC chose TinEye as their Firefox add-on of the week!

Of course, let’s not forget our bookmarklets for iPhone, Blackberry and smartphone junkies. Once you select the TinEye images bookmarklet, all the images on the page you were just viewing will be collected and sent to TinEye. To search for an image, just select the one you want and view the results.

Thanks for spreading the word about TinEye and our extensions. And don’t forget, you can still use the TinEye page to upload your own images!



We are happy to announce that TinEye our reverse image search engine has grown its index again adding over 32 million images including the entire iStockphoto and Photoshelter image collections. This is great news for photographers, image buyers and anyone interested in copyright compliance and attribution.

Today the TinEye index sits at just over 1.2 billion images – yes, that’s billion not million – 1,267,565,027 to be exact. As we grow we have been looking at how to answer just one question:

• who created that image?

Why is this important? Simple: Attribution. Creators want to establish authorship of their work and also know where their images are used. TinEye facilitates both.

As TinEye’s index grew, TinEye became the defacto image registry. Every day TinEye answers the “who created that image” question and connects images to their source. TinEye does this without keywords or metadata. Simply use an image to find an image. This is what we like to call the beginning of the attribution movement.

To start we are adding the world’s stock photography images to TinEye to connect all images available for licensing to their creator and distributor. And that’s just the beginning.

Every day TinEye helps image authors by:

• linking images to the original author – this is about attribution
• allowing image buyers to find the proper distributor of an image to purchase it
• showing how and where images are being used on the web
• protecting against image theft

Maybe you are a designer and you’d like to purchase an image for a project and you have a thumbnail or comp image but you’re not sure where it came from. Maybe you’re in love with a certain awesome image and would like to see the author’s other work. Maybe you want to see who else on the web is using an image… maybe you’re the image author. It does not matter: TinEye connects the dots for you.

At TinEye, we want to index every image in the world to help you find what you are looking for. iStockphoto and Photoshelter are a pretty awesome step towards that but it does not stop there. We will be adding a series of stock photography collections in the coming weeks so please stay tuned. If you are interested in having your image collection added to TinEye, get in touch.

Start using TinEye or join the 500,000 people who dowloaded our TinEye Firefox add-on to make image searching a single click.

Thanks TinEye fans! Our TinEye Firefox add-on broke 500,000 downloads this week. We are excited!