TinEye - Searching for images the other way

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Posted in » Search Engines - by Ades on April 1st, 2009

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tineye.pngTinEye is an image search engine that employs image identification technology rather than keywords - you upload sample image (or give URL of the image) and the search engine will find for you images that has the similar shapes, concepts, characteristics.

The results can be the same image, modified version of the image or a different image altogether as seen below. Also, the naming of the images do not really matter in this case as long as they match in appearance.

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If you want to see more examples of search results, see cool searches page.

Additionally they have iPhone app which allows you to search for products using your mobile phone’s camera. Just take a picture of the product to start searching for product info and reviews. Cool Stuff!

Website: tineye.com

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20 Responses to “TinEye - Searching for images the other way”

  1. By Web Design on Apr 1, 2009

    Really Cool Search engine. I think it’s Develop Especially for the Mobile Wap. thanks For The Info.

  2. By CSS web design finder on Apr 1, 2009

    Great tool, thank you! I think it might be useful for me

  3. By J32 on Apr 1, 2009

    That is something could be very useful for me in the near future. Somebody asked in a message board who would know such a search engine and nobody new an answer. Thanks alot for this article.

  4. By China Travel Service on Apr 1, 2009

    This is really a creative way of image searching, you can find more relative images. Other than that I found it is also useful for finding stolen images, if you search your own image you can find what others are using it. Really cool!

  5. By Minnesota Attorney on Apr 1, 2009

    This looks like great technology. I suppose it is only a matter of time before Google Images incorporates technology like this in its algorithm.

  6. By The Net Fool on Apr 1, 2009

    That’s absolutely nuts man! Thanks for sharing around that website, I’m loving this recent spring up of new web 2.0 services :)

  7. By iPhone on Apr 2, 2009

    That’s absolutely amazing!!
    I wonder if it shows duplicate images, just hosted somewhere else

  8. By Personal Injury Claims on Apr 2, 2009

    Nice tool I will have fun using this. Keep the good work up.

  9. By Web Design on Apr 2, 2009

    Really Nice tool. I think In Future the Search engine are Display the Images. People identify the the website by image. Thanks for sharing the Info.

  10. By Marketing Man on Apr 2, 2009

    Wow, what an awesome service! As a person who used to own a signage company I have to say that this technology would have been most helpful for artwork purposes and the like ten years ago! I still play around with graphic design, and this will definitely come in useful.

  11. By tivitune on Apr 2, 2009

    i’m shocked! It something different and i hope i will see more website like this one.

  12. By Marisha Adams on Apr 2, 2009

    wow.. that’s a really clever idea. It would be particularly useful if you were looking for images with a specific logo in them!

  13. By Cheap Mobile Calls on Apr 3, 2009

    Brilliant! I might see if I can find a photo of myself somewhere on there… ;)

  14. By Free DSi on Apr 3, 2009

    That is a really cool thing. Should help me find the people stealing my images hehe

  15. By titan on Apr 5, 2009

    this is great. I will do something about this site.

  16. By bantingboy on Apr 9, 2009

    great. This is what i’m looking for a years!

  17. By Online TV on Apr 10, 2009

    Looks like a long process to search some images on tineye, since I have to upload an image in order to find another image…., what if I do not have an image with what I am searching for? If I had what I was searching for than I would not search for it. Anyway, what I am trying to say, ….. I’ll still use google for image search.

  18. By cdl test on Apr 14, 2009

    another cool tool. it gives interesting, although often quirky, results

  19. By Free Movies on Apr 22, 2009

    i think this will be the best way to get good image…..

  20. By Todays Freebies on Aug 17, 2009

    this is a really cool and interesting tool


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