TinEye
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Type of site | Image Search Engine |
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Available in | multilingual |
Owner | Idée, Inc. |
URL | tineye |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | May 6, 2008 |
Current status | Active |
TinEye is a
History
Idée, Inc. was founded by Leila Boujnane and Paul Bloore in 1999. Idée launched the service on May 6, 2008 and went into open beta in August that year.[2][3] While computer vision and image identification research projects began as early as the 1980s,[4] the company claims that TinEye is the first web-based image search engine to use image identification technology. The service was created with copyright owners and brand marketers as the intended user base, to look up unauthorized use and track where the brands are showing up respectively.[5]
In June 2014, TinEye claimed to have indexed more than five billion images for comparisons.[6] However, this is a relatively small proportion of the total number of images available on the World Wide Web.[7]
As of March 2024, TinEye's search results claim to have over 66.1 billion images indexed for comparison.[8]
Technology
A user uploads an image to the search engine (the upload size is limited to 20 MB) or provides a
TinEye is capable of searching for images in
Results generated from TinEye include the total number of matches in their database, a preview image, and the URL to each match. TinEye can sort results by best match, most changed, biggest image, newest, and oldest.
User registration is optional and offers storage of the user's previous queries. Other features include embeddable
Usage
TinEye's ability to search the web for specific images (and modifications of those images) makes it a potential tool for the copyright holders of visual works to locate infringements on their copyright. It also creates a possible avenue for people who are looking to make use of imagery under
See also
References
- ^ a b c "TinEye Reverse Image Search". tineye.com. Retrieved November 1, 2022.
- ^ "Releases". Tineye.com. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
- ^ Claburn, Thomas (August 18, 2008). "TinEye Image Search Finds Copyright Infringers". InformationWeek. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
- ISBN 9781848829343.
- ^ George-Cosh, David (n.d.). "Idée's TinEye next frontier in Web searches" (PDF). National Post. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
- ^ "Retrieved 2014-07-01". Tineye.com. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
- ^ "Flickr hosts 5bn images as at Sep 10 – Retrieved 2011-04-06". Royal.pingdom.com. Archived from the original on July 12, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
- ^ "TinEye Reverse Image Search". tineye.com. Retrieved August 23, 2023.
- ^ Elias, Jean-Claude. (December 11, 2009). Search by photo. The Jordan Times. Retrieved on 2/19/10 from Factiva database.
- ^ "TinEye Developer Documentation". services.tineye.com. Retrieved June 5, 2022.
- ^ Yeh, B. (February 1, 2010). "Orphan works" in copyright law. Congressional Research Service. Retrieved on 2/19/10 from Factiva database.