Wednesday, June 18, 2008

TinEye - Image Search Engine


If you have ever been concerned about your photos being used without your consent, you've probably searched the Web by using keywords or EXIF data. Now there is a new image-search option that looks for visual matches. You upload an original image to this search engine, called TinEye, and it looks for other images with matching pixel patterns. There is a lot of Internet out there, and TinEye has indexed only a tiny fraction of it so far. So the chances are slim that it will make a correct match for many images. But it sounds like this is definitely worth watching. Request an invitation, it's free. Check out the video at their site for a demo.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That sounds really good, of course that is if it works.