We are working on redesigning our TinEye website and introducing a new brand for TinEye. This is exciting for us at the Ideeplex as we have been looking forward to this for a while. As we are working away here,we would like to hear about what improvements and changes you would like to see made to our user interface? Drop us a note in the comments, we would love to hear from you as always or simply send us a note at hi [at] tineye.com

Last week we added 28 million images to TinEye and today we topped that by adding 47 million images. The TinEye index is growing and we have more exciting news coming very soon. Happy searching!

Hi folks,

Just a head’s up that we have some planned downtime for TinEye scheduled for Tuesday February 9th @ 10am EST. We will be doing some behind-the-scenes maintenance and TinEye should only be offline for about an hour. Thanks for your patience.

Photo by Jakob Montrasio

A while back we introduced a commercial version of TinEye: a paid search alternative for professional, commercial or high-volume users. While the free version of TinEye only allows you to do a limited number of searches per day and is for non commercial use only, the commercial version of TinEye allows you to purchase as many searches as you like–for commercial or non-commercial use.

We initially launched the commercial version of TinEye as an API only, but what a lot of people don’t know is that we now also provide a user-friendly interface for commercial accounts, over at our commercial website.

This means that you can create a commercial TinEye account and use it to search for images in the same way that you are used to doing at tineye.com. Upload an image, or cut and paste a URL. There is even a separate browser plugin for commercial accounts so that you can right-click on any web image to search for it.

So let’s get started! Here is a step-by-step tutorial on how to get you or your company set up with a TinEye commercial account and start searching… the easy way.

1.

Go to the TinEye commercial website. This is different than the regular TinEye website, and all of the commercial stuff is done here, including searching and checking your account.

2.

Click the Sign up tab to sign up for a commercial account. Fill in all of your details, and if you are using TinEye commercially, don’t forget to provide the URL for your company website. You will receive an email verification as soon as you’re done.

3.

Check your email for a message from TinEye and click the verification link! You will be asked to log in with the email and password that you just used to sign up.

4.

Once you’re logged in, you’ll find yourself on the Welcome page. Don’t click away yet! There’s some good-to-know stuff here to help get you started. You can get back to this page from wherever you are on the site by going to About > Welcome (but you need to be logged in!).

5.

Before you can start searching, you need to buy a search bundle (you need to be logged in to actually buy a search bundle, but you can see the pricing even if you’re not).  Transactions are handled via PayPal; as soon as you’re done you’ll be directed back to your account summary page on our site, which will show what you just purchased.

6.

You’re all set! Click on the Search tab to get started. Then simply search the way you would normally do on tineye.com. Upload an image from your local drive to search for it, or point to a web image or web page by pasting the URL.

Bonus!

To make searching even easier, get the browser plugin for TinEye commercial accounts. It lets you right-click on any web image to search for it (currently available for the Firefox browser only). To install, go to the Search page and click on the image that says ‘Install the API plugin for Firefox’.

Note: The browser plugins for the regular version of TinEye found at tineye.com/plugin will not work with your TinEye API account. You must install the commercial version to perform searches that will work with your prepaid search bundle.

And that’s it folks, happy searching!

]]> http://blog.ideeinc.com/2010/01/27/tineye-commercial-accounts-the-really-super-easy-way/feed/ 0 http://blog.ideeinc.com/2010/01/19/now-accepting-image-collection-submissions/ http://blog.ideeinc.com/2010/01/19/now-accepting-image-collection-submissions/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:08:21 +0000 Melina Stathopoulos http://blog.ideeinc.com/?p=4455

TinEye has just one goal in life: To connect images and information. Whether that means finding the original author of an image, finding out where an image has been used on the web, or finding out more information about an image in general, TinEye wants to help you find the information you’re looking for. And the bigger our database of images, the better!

We have been crawling the web relentlessly over the past several months. In October ‘09 we grew by 21.5 million images. In November we grew by 22.5 million images. In December we leaped up another 65 million images.  And in January alone we’ve added 44 million images and the month is not over yet!

In addition to our regular web crawling, we have started adding entire specialized image collections. Last week we announced the addition of the iStockphoto and Photoshelter stock photo collections to TinEye. Why? Because we want to make it easy to attribute any stock image to its original author, and facilitate sales. And we plan to add new and different specialized image collections over the coming weeks and months. Maybe even yours?

So… calling all companies dealing with large image collections on the web! TinEye is officially accepting your image collection submissions. Here are some of the things we are looking for:

• Stock and editorial photography collections
• Art and illustration collections
• Product image indexes and catalogs
• Archival or historical image collections
• You tell us!

If you are an image provider or deal with large image collections as a part of your business–and if you want more people connecting with your images–then we want to hear from you! Preference will be given to collections containing over 1 million images, and to companies with an existing image management and delivery procedure.

To add your image collection to TinEye, please contact us. Help us connect your images to you!

(Photo by Kjunstorm)

Groove Dexter over at groovyPost wrote up a great tutorial on how to use TinEye. It covers finding larger versions of an image, using the ‘Compare Images’ feature to compare similar images, and finding out more information about the subject of an image. Check it out, you might learn something new!

That’s right, TinEye has got a shiny new page on Facebook, and we want you to join us there. Get the latest news about TinEye, find out what other TinEyers are up to, or just join the conversation and fun in general!

New blog posts, release notes and tweets are all updated on our Facebook page, so you can get all our news in one convenient location. We’ll be answering your questions and posting our little hearts out with fun or interesting stuff. Keep an eye out for special contests and giveaways, too!

Visit our page today, and if you’ve already got a Facebook account don’t forget to become a fan of TinEye by clicking the ‘Become a Fan’ button at the top of the page. See you there!

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

As TinEye scoops PEI news in the CBC reporting today I can’t help but think about the two blog posts that have been brewing in my head for a little while now:

• Authenticity of photographs in reporting (or editorial news) and
• Photo credits: and by photo credits I mean providing appropriate photo credits at all time.

So there will be soon a longer blog post about both, in the meantime enjoy the little gem that Peter Rukavina unearthed this morning! The photo credit should read iStockphoto and not CBC.

We have dealt with our TinEye slow downs. And everything is back to normal. If you notice any slow downs, let us know. Happy searching.