In the recent searches of many blogs and websites I came through a search engine called TinEye.It is a kind of its own and is the first to use such technology , it is very interesting search engine , Read about it.:-)
WHAT IS TIN EYE?
TinEye is a reverse image search engine and using it can find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.It has menu like search , updates , goodies , api , about , press ,blog , forum and have facility to register and create a new account.
TinEye is the first image search engine and it uses image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. It is free to use for non-commercial searching.
TinEye searches web for new images, and also accepts contributions of complete online image collections. in it's database it has image count upto some 1,918,458,529(published 13 days before this post).
you can either upload a image from your computer or paste a url of it , it will display the results in some seconds .
you can also sort on the results with categories like " best match , most changed , biggest image , and can also share on twitter , on facebook via email
It has also got addons for your browser using which if you right click on any image it displays a menu with option "search image on TinEye" .
For firefox users , click here to get it.
For google chrome users click here to get it.
For other users they can click here and get it
let's go with some screenshots to help you.
Step 1: Click on one of the above link to get the add-on and install it.
Step 2: After the installation is complete , go to some website where you want to use it for e.g. http://www.guruz8tech.blogspot.com
Step 4:right click on any image that you want to look for and you will see a menu appearing with a blue"T" icon "search image on Tin Eye" select it .
now it automatically opens a tab on your browser and displays the results as follows:
as you can see it has searched over 1.9532 billion images in the net in merely 1.329 secs , nice right!!
Note: you can click on image to view enlarged picture
HOW DOES TIN EYE WORK?
When you submit an image to be searched, TinEye creates a unique and compact digital signature or 'fingerprint' for it, then compares this fingerprint to every other image in our index to retrieve matches. TinEye can even find a partial fingerprint match.
The fingerprinting technologies have been developed by Idée Inc..
TinEye does not typically find similar images (i.e. a different image with the same subject matter); it finds exact matches including those that have been cropped, edited or resized.
I hope you liked my first post and widened your knowledge a bit in vast internet , meet you all soon on some other tech updates in web
For more information and FAQs here.
Comments are welcome
The fingerprinting technologies have been developed by Idée Inc..
TinEye does not typically find similar images (i.e. a different image with the same subject matter); it finds exact matches including those that have been cropped, edited or resized.
I hope you liked my first post and widened your knowledge a bit in vast internet , meet you all soon on some other tech updates in web
For more information and FAQs here.
Comments are welcome
