Interesting new Image search engine

[AndrewLee]

I just stumbled onto a new image based search engine that might be useful for some of our members who grow tired of finding their photos posted/copied without authorization or attribution: TinEye

I just recently had to set a relative straight about how different supercell thunderstorms and a hurricane look like. The relative passed on the chain email claiming that Mike H.'s photos of supercell thunderstorms in the plains were actually pictures of a certain hurricane that devastated the gulf coast a few years ago (gag).

I know that we don't all sell our photos, but we do like to get the credit for pointing the lens in the right direction at the right time, so I thought I would pass the info along.

I did some testing and I am pretty impressed with the results. You can find a write about it on here on ArsTechnica

 

[James Langford]

They are interesting, but I have had mixed results so far. I signed up for their beta quite some time ago. It is very cool that you can install the little IE helper. With it, you can right click on any image and check it in Tin Eye. They don't seem to yet have a very big index, but it is increasing all the time. I've searched against a number of my images that I know are in quite a few places, but I don't get many hits on them. If they can increase their index size, it will be an excellent service.

James

 

[Aaron Wesson]

They also have a Firefox plug-in that does the same thing. This search engine is not bad but needs to have several more thousand images indexed to be more reliable. It is a great idea!

 

[L.B. LaForce]

Wow, thats rather neat, yet I don't really want to sign up just to search. oh yeah, that chick in the vid is hot too

 

[Paul Hadfield]

I tried it with a few images I have spattered around the net with no results. Could be because like they say, the index is small? Wonder if the common meta tag <meta name="robots" content="none"> is canceling the search? Neat concept nonetheless.