TinEye - very useful reverse image search engine

[RubyBlue]

It's not extremely new (I think it was launched in August) but I'm not sure if you guys are aware of, what I think is, a great invention for people involved in graphics and photographers alike - TINEYE.COM

Idée Inc's awesome little thingie allows you to search for a specific image and find it's duplicates on the net. It's, what they call, a reverse image search engine. It's engine will scan an image of your choice (that you upload or link to), making a unique map out of it. It will then find all images corresponding to your unique "fingerprinted" image. It means that even if someone has stolen your photo, cropped it and made it b&w, the engine will still be able to find it. Extremely useful for keeping an eye on where your work is being used, be it a logo or a stock image.

When I first tried it they had a 4 million images database. Quite small if you think about the amount of data out there. Now they're up to 1 billion..so I'd say things are going well.

I've already found a few of my photos tossed around blogs..no credit back, of course. A friend of mine - very talented photographer - has found one of her portraits being selled as a tiny cell-phone wallpaper with some text on it, on different sites...

So, visual artists from all over the world - it is time to get empowered! As for art rippers: beware, a new era has begun!

[_Redrum]

Thanks

[KHDZN]

Thanks!

[df-shorty]

this is realy usefull, ty

[.:FMD]

this is realy usefull, ty

WOW! Thank you!

[Bernadette]

well thank you!
I have been dreaming about it since they invented google !

[paseeeet]

i prefer google images

[RubyBlue]

well thank you!
I have been dreaming about it since they invented google !

Hahah, I know what you mean! Glad you found it useful !

i prefer google images

This is quite the opposite from google images so the two can't really be compared..You search not by entering a word, but an actual image and the results represent the duplicates of that very same image that the engine is able to find online.

[deleted member]

lol very sweet

[jecrt]

incredible - thanks!!

[Grafibee]

Thanks very usefull

[paladin884]

Thanks!

[KatGV]

going to give it a try.

[Tamyra]

pimptastic

Thanks for the link! Had no idea there was something like this out there!

[dshock]

That's absolutely awesome !!! Thank you so much !

[giant]

Yeah, that's nice!!!

[Brixtonian]

this site is genius! thanks for the post

[toddbee]

tyvm

[jbcianci]

awesome thanks, not sure how useful it will be to me now, but im sure it will come in handy sometime

[Waqqas]

It doesn't seem to work that great for images above 10MP. Thanks though.