- Vive la différence!
I never thought that I would see TinEye and Jacques Derrida mentioned in the same sentence. This is awesome! I still remember late night conversations about Derrida’s work… his books are still on my bookshelves but I have to admit that I have not pulled them out in years! Nonetheless Alejandro in Amsterdam has a little write up about TinEye and how TinEye is really an image search engine to spot the differences in images or photographs. Correct! TinEye spots the difference.
I need to bring up a couple of corrections to Alejandro’s post: TinEye has now indexed 901 million images and not 487 million images it also does not directly compete with text search engines such as Google, AltaVista or Yahoo. It is in a category of its own: the image search category using image identification (or recognition) technologies. Of course you can use Google, Yahoo or any other search engine to search for images but what TinEye really answers are two simple questions: where has an image appeared and how has it been used; and it does that using image recognition. TinEye does not replace keyword searching, it actually enhances it and is an additional search method that can yield better results than text searching because TinEye can index an image even when there are no keywords associated with the image or no keywords in the proximity of the image.
So back to work, because TinEye is not going to get better by itself!
- ars technica reviews TinEye
Jacqui Cheng from ars technica took TinEye for a spin and shared her thoughts on our image search engine, saying:Our opinion of the site transformed from skeptical to impressed as we used it more and more. It’s obviously not meant for casual web browsing or finding out what that crazy animal you saw on the side of the road is. However, if you are trying to keep track of how your creations are used across the web, or you saw an image and want to find out where it came from, TinEye is incredibly useful.
And we are still in beta, building our index and working on some amazing new features that will make your TinEye search experience even better.
Read the rest of the ars technica review >>
- 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: 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.”
- 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!
- 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!
The fantastic folks over at StartupMeme have an Eye for TinEye.
Kaly from makeuseof.com also reviewed TinEye on their site.
TinEye. Let the games begin is from our neck of the world since Dan is a Canadian Photographer. heh!
In Russia, Alexander at Kavelin.net reviewed TinEye and put our image search engine through its paces. With edits and blurs, TinEye still found the original query image - a screenshot from the movie Forest Gump - and that was before we added almost 200,000,000 more images to the index.
What’s exciting is that even if it’s a bit tricky to understand what’s being said, images require no translation.
We also heard from Many over at n.e.r.d.logger.com who just discovered TinEye and says “their algorithms run circles around pretty much every other technology in this field.”
And last one: and this one is a scenario that we have been discussing in the Ideeplex: how can you figure out if the photo that someone is using on their dating site profile is really their photograph? Ming-Tsung discovered that TinEye was handy for exactly that.
- 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 woman. Star fruit, who knew.I think I might end up playing with TinEye for hours.
One of the nifty finds was his bird photo photoshopped into an awesome looking cat-bird by the folks at HumanDescent. TinEye wasn’t fooled though.
Nice searches Scott, thanks for sharing your TinEye story.
* Images Scott Liddell
- TinEye private investigator
John Arrington’s review of TinEye just landed in my inbox forwarded by a colleague and that would have been just an awesome read if I had not woken up this morning to TinEye being down! We are in the office, getting rolling on bringing it back, the team is being hawled out of bed as we speak (happy Sunday!). There is no rest for the wicked! This is the first down time we have experienced so I am sure we will learn a few things. We will keep you posted as things progress.
I am sorry that John’s searches were successful in unearthing a couple of copyright violations but I am happy that he finally had a chance to play with it and his thumbs up in the form of this compliment: “All around impressive” keeps us warm as we battle the server gremlins.
- Beauty is in the TinEye of the beholder! (wink to startupmeme)
Imran Hussain from Startupmeme has a great little post about TinEye this morning, as well as a nice set of search results, well of course: the search results are nice, they are from our cool search! Now that Imran’s beta invitation was approved I am sure we will see a lot more TinEye play! What I liked about Imran’s post is Alistair’s TinEye robot; he is developing quite a personality and is growing on me.
- NextMEDIA ‘08 was a smashing success! We have videos!
Couldn’t make it out to Banff this June for all the action at the soldout NextMEDIA conference? You can still catch up on some of the highlights!
Leila Boujnane chats with Kris Krug from NextMEDIA about the conference, TinEye and participating on the “Canada’s Hottest Digital Media Innovators” panel.
Jeremy Wright from b5media, Markus Frind of Plentyoffish and Boris Wertz from Nexopia joined Leila on the panel where they discussed their technologies, communities and how they are growing their innovative companies.
You can catch all of Kris’ interviews including Microsoft Research’s Bill Buxton who was the keynote speaker this year on Blip.
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