- To TinEye an image
Nothing makes me smile more than hearing users talk about TinEye-ing an image! I stumbled across this digg post a while back - totally forgot about it until this morning. I love how TinEye was the first image search tool mentioned and used to find the Awesome Spaghetti Junction photograph. And by the way the junction photograph is that of Bangkok’s expressways.
- TinEye a librarian’s friend (and superhero)
Patricia’s list of technology resources and toys included TinEye this month. Patricia is the Head Librarian for the Dentistry Library of the University of Michigan and her list includes some pretty cool technologies to try and add to your arsenal. I would add to it Multicolr - because I am biased and it is a great tool! Thanks for the TinEye mention. Always great to hear from and about our users.
- Durban and TinEye
I would really want the weather to improve in Durban, because when the weather is crap - Daniel Cuthbert’s words not mine - he spends his time using TinEye and that’s really good but he find out upsetting things: like say his photograph(s) being used without permission. That’s not nice and that’s why I really wish that the weather would improve tremendously in Durban so that Daniel can get out there and shoot! TinEye is a superhero. I just wish he had a cape. A great red cape? It looks like Daniel has resolved one of his photo theft!
- TinEye: the ‘go to’ search engine for images
TinEye fan Jeff left us a quick note to let us know that he spied TinEye in action over on Digg. The post in question - Awesome Spaghetti Junction, what city is this? - included the image below and the simple question:
What city is this?
How can you find out more about an image such as this one when the image is all you have? Simple. Use TinEye.com. TinEye is the only search engine able to find your exact image in over a billion images crawled from the web.
Digg user ka9dgx used TinEye to find the image in a National Geographic Traveler story about Bangkok, Thailand. TinEye also located the original image titled “The Veins of Bangkok” on Flickr, just one of the 26 different instances of this image found on the web.
And who took this shot? Trey Ratcliff, a part-time photographer that I first learned about back in August when I wrote this post about Copyright and Creative Commons. You can see more of Trey’s amazing images by visiting his blog Stuck in Customs.
Click the image below to try the TinEye search yourself and discovery where else Trey’s image has travelled online. Still need to get your TinEye account? Grab one here.
Image: Trey Ratcliff
- TinEye Cool Searches: Redux
With an updated index and some behind-the-scenes tweaks, TinEye is now better than ever at finding your images in our index of over a billion images. And we just updated our TinEye Cool Searches, showcasing a new crowd of fun and interesting searches for you to explore.
This rather timely stressed out gas-pumper graphic is just one of the nifty searches we’ve included over on TinEye.com. Swing by the Cool Searches page to see the latest additions:
And from the vault of thousands of submitted searches from TinEye fans like you, here are some more Cool Searches that highlight TinEye’s unique ability to locate your images online…
The YSL t-shirt search returns several product shots:
A search for this Obama t-shirt returned this interesting combination of images. As you can see, TinEye can still find the original image even when it has been skewed:
This dog just might be the busiest dog on the web. He is the Everywhere Girl of the animal kingdom! TinEye found him sharing the Tao of Happiness, cheering on Sox fans, talking about his food allergies and more. He also popped up in support of Barack Obama and John McCain, he’s even keen on the fictitious Stewart - Colbert ‘08 election ticket. He is one confounded political pup. Check out his over 100 results from TinEye:
And lastly, one of our earlier test images was J. Howard Miller’s “We Can Do It!“, commonly referred to as Rosie the Riveter. With the updated index TinEye returns over 700 results for this American cultural icon including a snapshot of an original “We Can Do It!” wall thermometer and some rather amusing photoshop edits:
Discovered your own TinEye cool search? Remember, you can submit them to us for review and inclusion to our Cool Searches page by clicking the “Recommend as a Cool Search” link on your TinEye results page.
- TinEye: Sleuth in Advertising
Camera shopping is hard work. Over the past ten years I’ve purchased three digital cameras, and each purchase was more difficult than the last. Thankfully sites like Digital Photography Review, and Steve’s Digicams have made it easier because the camera companies are not exactly objective.
The DSC-T3 viewfinder image is a film-camera stock photo that predates the DSC-T3 by years.One thing I learned today is that camera manufacturers don’t necessarily use images that come from their cameras. For example, this Sony DSC-T3 viewfinder implies that the image is being captured by the camera. In actual fact, it’s a photodisc stock photo that predates the camera by years, and was likely taken with a film camera costing thousands.
See the original TinEye query that inspired this post! And uh oh, there are others.
- Just the FAQs please
Who knew a FAQ could be so convincing?
One of the great deviantART folks, posted a review of TinEye today. My favourite part?
At first glance the service by new image search engine TinEye seems to be a great way of seeing if there are multiples of any image on the web. After looking at their FAQ I decided I liked it a lot more.
Nice to hear that our TinEye FAQ rocks! We have tried to answer most questions that come to mind when you are a first time TinEye user and wondering what this search engine is really all about.
Thedevianthelper used evol1214’s image called .missing you. for the TinEye search example and was rewarded with a hefty 141 results.
The alterations and edits are pretty cool, even with text and images obscuring the original, TinEye found them. Here are just a few…
- TinEye, data miner
Happy Thursday, friends. Today’s TinEye tip includes a cool search submitted by Larry.
What if someone has sent you an image, maybe via email, maybe they shared it on Facebook or ffffound. You love it and would like to use it as a screen saver, or perhaps in a blog post. The problem? Your friend can’t remember where he got it and there are no details about the original photographer included with the image. Even the filename can’t help you. What do you do?
Well, Larry knows. Use TinEye. He uploaded a screen shot of an image he had on his desktop and voila!
TinEye located the original image and the original owner on Flickr. It’s a great shot by Bob from Lynchburg, Virginia.
TinEye makes it easy to locate images online, it also helps you figure out who owns the image you are using and allows you to provide proper attribution. TinEye is a connector: it connects image lovers with the photographers they are inspired by.
- Battle Logo
So I happened upon a discussion about what logo was most popular online and wondered what the results would be if I did a search for major brands and their logos using TinEye. Battle Logo, begin!
From the 30 odd logos I searched, one stood above them all for online representation (within TinEye’s index of over 700,000,000 images, that is).
#10 Apple (with 204 results)#9 American Express (with 225 results)
#8 Ferrari (with 409 results)
#7 Adidas and BMW (with 428 Adidas results and 428 BMW results)
#6 Coke (with 523 results)#5 Starbucks (with 766 results)
#4 Volkswagon (with 781 results)
#3 HP (with 957 results)
#2 Wikipedia (with exactly 1000 results)
and the #1 logo?
YouTube (with 1081 results)
Impressive, non?
(Yes, this has no statistical validity…but it sure was fun! Found a better logo for the #1 spot? Let us know!)
Update: Stu sent us an email to let us know that the Firefox logo was way ahead of YouTube, checking in at 1366 results. Nice search. Google is still in the lead, as pointed out by Leila in our comments. Which logo will beat Google’s hefty 6479?
- Have image, will TinEye
Glen, an art director and and graphic designer, sent us this cool search and said “this image shows the various steps and elements used in a tutorial.” What a great search.
TinEye is a handy tool that can help you to learn more about how an image was created, whether it was photoshopped and perhaps even locate some additional background information on the image. Your results will depend on what information others have posted online along with the specific image you are searching for.
In this case TinEye located Craig Henry’s 2006 tutorial on how to create this ‘alien invasion’ image. And what’s neat is that each of the steps in the tutorial has a slightly different version of the image and TinEye located each one, 14 in total.
Would you have guessed that the space ship in this image was actually made by combining parts of images from the front of a corvette and a canon camera lens? Craig’s a pretty creative guy! And now that I know who shot and edited this image I can also post it with proper attribution.
What if you have an image but don’t know anything about it? Try TinEye.
** Image: Craig Henry
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