May 6th, 2008

TinEye does for images, what Google does for text

At the end of last week I got an email from Leila Boujnane, CEO of Idee Inc., and one of the smartest and most charismatic people I know (whether she's keynoting a Toronto tech event or sipping Bourbon in my kitchen). 

Leila needed a how-to video for a new image search engine her company was launching (well, has launched, today in fact).  After seeing a demo of TinEye, I jumped at the op (amazing technology) and over the weekend my company did our best to work with Leila and Paul to represent how TinEye works.  I'm going to stop "talking" now because you'll hear enough of me in the video.




P.S.  Thx to Chris from MGImedia for rallying to shoot/edit this video with me until the final hours of the weekend.  You are the best.

Back to work on the TR project, will post more on this new social network when we're ready to share the site. 

May 6th, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (21)

Posted by: Amit Agarwal | around 11 days ago

Amber - Can I have an invite ? Thanks.

Posted by: Sina | around 11 days ago

very interesting

Posted by: Shaun | around 11 days ago

Interesting, but if you already have the image why do you need to search for it? ...maybe I'm missing something.

Posted by: Amber Mac | around 11 days ago

@Shaun - if you're a photographer, you would want to know where else your work appears online, etc.

Posted by: Michael | around 10 days ago

Looks like a very useful tool. As a graphic designer I get customers sending me low res images from the web to use in their various printed material. And regularly I need to figure out where they got the picture to see if we are allowed to use the image and if I can get a better quality image. The client often does not know where they get the pictures (Thanks to Goodgle Images). Thanks for the heads up Amber... Defiantly going to keep an eye on this one.

Posted by: Amber Mac | around 10 days ago

@Michael - yup, I can see that happening all the time (actually, I think I've done that many times ;).

Posted by: SoBeGene | around 10 days ago

Great search engine for locating clones.

Posted by: Jason | around 10 days ago

This is a pretty nifty tool! I can see this getting really popular. I imagine there will be some kind of way to dump entire albums from places like FlickR to see where photographers' images are being used-- I'd definitely use it!

Posted by: JP | around 10 days ago

Is the beta full? I signed up but would love to get access. People are always stealing photos from my site.

Posted by: Blissfulpain | around 9 days ago

This is awesome, it means I'll finally be able to link back to original sources and find the best quality version of an image for my StumbleUpon photoblog.

Posted by: SteveintheUK | around 9 days ago

Hi Amber TinEye's is a great site/app and really useful, but one off topic question, is it just me or is the full screen button on this Blip.tv video disabled? it doesn't seem to work, but the other Blip.tv video's on your site do. Thanks

Posted by: Jonathan | around 9 days ago

Very good! I have requested an invite. TinEye looks really useful.

Posted by: Amber Mac | around 9 days ago

@JP - I think they are giving out more invites each day. @Steve - not sure what is up w/Blip.

Posted by: Michael | around 8 days ago

Yea! I just got my invite! :) This is truly a cool search method. It's going to be amazing once they get more and more images indexed.

Posted by: kawBreaws | around 8 days ago

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Posted by: k235 | around 6 days ago

i've been waiting for something like this. just great. waiting for their email. :) thanks for the tip! (net@night)

Posted by: Dakota | around 5 days ago

Great video Amber. Well I just signed up for an invitation and was just wondering how long will it take?

Posted by: incognitas | around 4 days ago

I really need this, who can help me to get an invite? :(

Posted by: Amber Mac | around 3 days ago

@incognitas - what is your email address?

Posted by: Dakota | around 3 days ago

Can somebody please send me an invite.

Posted by: JP | around 2 days ago

Thanks Amber. just got beta approval from tineye! lookin' good