- Taking TinEye for a spin
Michael from macro art in nature takes TinEye for a spin and is impressed. His review and comments are pretty much in line with what we have been hearing these past weeks: TinEye is an awesome image-to-image search engine when it finds results! Well of course, of course! What would an image search engine be if it did not find results! As we mentioned our index is growing, our next larger index is about to be released (so hang on to your pants). This is just the beginning of our image search adventures.
What I liked about Michael’s comments are his butterfly findings - because yes…. drum roll… TinEye does find results. We keep seeing modifications and adaptations to images that are quite stunning and that shows “the amazing capability that [TinEye] has” in Michael’s words. All good news!
- TinEye Podcast
I had a great time talking with Jim Goldstein about TinEye and his podcast is now available for your listening. Jim Goldstein is a stunning independent photographer who has photographed some of my favourite locations in the world including Point Reyes. I am in California next week and I will be running here. If you have any questions about the podcast: I am listening at lboujnane (@) ideeinc.com as always. Oh and while you are downloading podcasts, Jim’s interview with Lessig is a must.
Thanks Jim!
- Your Monday TinEye Report!
A huge thank you to all the folks out there talking about TinEye! Here are just a few of our favourites…
“I am a born cynic, but after putting TinEye to the test with some of my photos I’ve quickly become a believer…” says professional photographer Jim Goldstein in his post Who Is Stealing Your Photos Online? He goes on to state “Although Google is the 800 pound gorilla of search they’ve been beat to the punch by Idée Inc.”Jim has a podcast called “EXIF and beyond” that you can subscribe to via his blog. Stay tuned as he will be interviewing our CEO Leila Boujnane on his podcast in the very near future!
James O’Rear, an American photographer living in England, captured how we feel about TinEye perfectly in his post TinEye: Coolest Thing on the Planet. “ARE YOU WHOOPING AND HOLLERING YET?!?!?!?!?!?” Yep James, we know exactly how you feel!
This week’s winner of the ‘best cool searches’ award goes to Yogendra, who has an amazing selection of cool TinEye searches on the blog Being Yogendra. In Yogendra’s words “too much to handle for me… can’t imagine how it can pull something like this…” Your globe search was awesome! 806 results searched from over 487 million images in 0.331 seconds!!
- TinEye gets Popular! Popular Photography magazine, that is!
Pop over to PopPhoto.com for the latest coverage on TinEye. Our beta image search engine is featured on the PopPhoto website and that’s just fantastic. I know there will be more TinEye fans soon.“Boujnane and Idée are on to something very smart with TinEye.” the article notes. We’re glad they think so, we keep hearing that from our great community of beta testers too.
What do you use TinEye for? The folks at PopPhoto covered a number of great TinEye uses from historical research to brand tracking to “good old-fashioned curiosity”. We have a lot of that last one at the idéeplex!
PopPhoto states “Idée’s goal with TinEye is quite simple: to be the image search engine.”
Exactly! With over 12,500 users registered in under a month, an index soon to tip past one billion images and many exciting new features in the works, we’re well on our way. Thanks everyone for your incredible support and feedback! Stay tuned as we start featuring some of our TinEye community fans and their TinEye uses.
Has TinEye helped you lately? Let us know!
- TinEye offers students a new way to search!
We love the idea that TinEye could make learning and education a little bit easier!
That’s why we were so pleased to read Linda Braun’s post on teenagers and the world of search.
“It’s important for librarians serving teens to recognize the search tools that are preferred by the age group.
Searchme and TinEye are particularly good for those teens who are visual and who might be more successful with searching and results that are displayed in an image-based form. ”
Fantastic!
It is exciting to have educators, librarians and library associations joining our growing community and we really hope to hear more about how you are using TinEye with your students and your community.
We were also happy to hear that Linda thinks “…searching TinEye gives you a sense of where search is headed.” We agree wholeheartedly!
Know a librarian or teacher who might be interested in TinEye? Send them our way!
- 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.
- TinEye love, TinEye linkfest!
Yes! You like us!Our image search engine is the talk of the town! TinEye has hundreds of mentions on blogs, forums and websites around the world!
“Even if this is in private beta, it works perfectly. TinEye is the start of a revolution.” - Razvan Pirnac, trendblogging.org
“tineye.com is an awesome tool. I think it’ll be something we’ll be wondering how we ever lived without in the near future. ” - deadmann, Twitter
(Did you know TinEye is on twitter? Come and say hello!)
“This is something really mind blowing. We are probably witnessing the development of a technology which is going to be used at a regular basis by people like us.” - sundesigns, stock.xchng forum
Are you excited about the next release? We are! Thank you for all your comments, suggestions and tremendous support. We can’t wait to grow our image index and make TinEye better for you. The Idéeplex is buzzing with energy night and day as we work on improvements, they are coming soon! Stay tuned!
We always want to hear from our users, please keep sending your comments, tweaks, feature ideas and kudos (we love kudos!) to tineyefeedback @ ideeinc.com.
What? You don’t have a TinEye account yet? Visit tineye.com and we will make sure you get one lickety-split!
** photo Duncan Cumming
- TinEye happiness at deviantART!
Hello new friends at deviantART!
It was exciting to find out that Paula and our deviant fans are loving TinEye. We love your photos too!
We are listening to you and working hard at growing the index and adding cool new features to TinEye! It is great to hear all the awesome things you have to say so far:
evile33: “That thing blows me away…”
kkart: “This thing is INCREDIBLE!”
sometimes121: “Amazing .. I really needed this kind of search ..”
“That is news worthy indeed.” We think so! Thanks!
Keep the comments and suggestions coming, we love to hear from you.
We are approving TinEye invites as quickly as we can. If you haven’t received yours or haven’t requested an invitation yet come and visit us at tineye.com! Chop, chop! We’re waiting for you!
- We love TinEye fans (and their videos)!
TinEye’s community is growing fast!
Our new friend, professional photographer Yanik Chauvin, has a fantastic blog (and several photography sites too!) where he shares tips, product reviews and photography-related tutorials.
We were excited to read Yanik’s recent post about TinEye - it is a hit around the Idéeplex!
We enjoyed it so much we wanted to make sure all of our friends had a chance to read the interview and see the video too.
Thanks Yanik, we are thrilled that our growing community includes creative folks like you!
- Thank you TinEye Community!
It’s been a busy week here at Idée and an even busier one for TinEye! Since our TinEye beta launched, we’ve had users from all over the globe trying out our image search engine, providing feedback and sharing their results! And we have to say: we love you, we love your feedback and we are working super hard on the next release.
TinEye has gone around the world and made some incredible friends in the US, Canada, Japan, Hungary, China, Germany, Italy, France and the UK to just name a few countries! So we want to thank you all from the bottom of our (robot) heart!
We found out that we have an amazing group of TinEye fans in Hungary at the Stock.Xchng forum, lead by photographer Cris DeRaud. It is great for us to see TinEye helping photographers locate how and where their images are being used!
In their words: “This is something really mind blowing. We are probably witnessing the development of a technology which is going to be used at a regular basis by people like us.” Amen!
Gareth and the great folks at bit-tech took some time to check out TinEye and we were thrilled to know that one of the UK’s leading tech review sites really dig us. Thanks guys!
Popping over to the British Isles, we heard from David Hoffmann of the Editorial Photographers United Kingdom and Ireland, who said “This is very impressive…this is a real breakthrough.” We could not agree more!
Photographer Robert Kneschke, from Germany, used TinEye to find unlicensed copies of his images in his first searches with our little tiny image index. Don’t worry folks: the image index will be growing very soon!
On to Italy where a blogger at Giavasan described TinEye as “a new search engine for images that kicks ass” and said it is “literally a dream come true.” Wow, we feel the same way! We’re glad you liked the simple and intuitive interface, quick search results and the Firefox plug-in too! Grazie, siamo contenti vedere cosi tanto d’interesse nel prodotto!
Nearer to home - that’s Canada for all you visitors! - the forums at iStockPhoto have been buzzing with news about TinEye. All good.
Susan’s highlighted some great uses for TinEye and we are greatful: “It has the potential to be hugely useful once coverage is more complete, especially to image producers and their agencies who want to keep tight control on where and how their images are used. Very useful for image purchasers too considering web usage of an image - they could check pretty easily who else is using it and for what purposes to make sure there aren’t any unforeseen and potentially embarrassing overlaps in the same market.”
More TinEye ’sightings’ from around the web? TinEye was discussed during a Canadian podcast and profiled in the National Post too!
We want to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts because without you all these long nights would not make sense. Stay tuned for more TinEye goodness to come your way. If you have not requested your TinEye invitation all we have for you is a single question: What - are - you - waiting - for?
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