TinEye for the Image Search Guy
Friday, May 9th, 2008;
-- Andy Beal |
I’ve wanted tell you about TinEye for a few days now, but I’ve been swamped this week.
Then I figured out you’d probably prefer to see the demo by Amber Mac anyway.
Don’t want to watch the video. Here’s the elevator pitch:
TinEye uses image identification technology. You give it an image to search for and TinEye shows you where and how that image appears all over the web - even if it has been altered. The technology behind TinEye is Idée’s advanced image identification algorithms that identify images without the use of any meta-data or watermarks. TinEye literally does for images what Google does for text.
I know there are other companies working on similar technology, but hat’s off to TinEye for realizing you need to get the word out, then worry about perfection.
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May 9th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Maybe my mind has already gone home for the weekend, but what is the point of searching for an image using an image I already have? If I had the image to start with, I wouldn’t be searching for it. Can someone give me a situation where this would be useful?
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May 9th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
@Paul - reputation monitoring, trademark infringement, finding the dress Angelina Jolie wore in People magazine at an online store (maybe not you personally, for the last one).
May 9th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
This is pretty sweet. Other than the few things you mentioned above, I can’t think of any other uses but I’m sure several will pop up - thanks for the info.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
That is increadible.
I just wonder who will come up with the first way to abuse the technology
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May 10th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Just out of curiosity, am I right in saying that Idee hired Amber MacArthur as a spokeswoman?
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May 10th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
@Darren - not sure of the arrangement, I suspect they just hired her for the video demo.
May 10th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
There are the same services for people images search.
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