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05/16/2008 06:12:06 PM · #1 |
| This service seems to have some interest amongst stock photographers who like to trace use of their work. TinEye image search engine |
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05/16/2008 06:17:47 PM · #2 |
I applied for an invite. Is there any cost? Or are we at the beta phase right now?
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05/16/2008 06:18:34 PM · #3 |
| From what I have heard, at present, no cost. I also applied for an invite as I was too late for the open... |
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05/16/2008 06:27:53 PM · #4 |
| sweet, stolen images will be alomst impossible to keep up if this works to potential |
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05/18/2008 05:34:38 AM · #5 |
Oh man, that site gives me headaches. I fed it one of my images and 15 results with the image stolen popped up.
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05/18/2008 06:25:28 AM · #6 |
I've been waiting for something like this! Awesome. (I often find fascinating images without any credits or additional info; this will help figuring out where they come from - and possibly finding more stuff I like.)
I wonder what their algorithm does. It seems to calculate a "summary" of each image and can then determine distances between summaries, right? If anyone knows more about the math, thanks for explaining or sending links. |
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05/18/2008 08:39:00 AM · #7 |
I got my approval this morning and have been playing around with it. The firefox plugin makes it as easy as right-clicking on an image and choosing a Tineye search as an option. Very nice.
It didn't find any copies of any of my immensely popular and often stolen images on the web, so for fun, I searched for Shannon's immortal:
and found a copy on this French Blog.
Now I know Shannon's image has been stolen at least 10,000 times so finding one is not that impressive, but an image search capability like this has tremendous potential. I like it!
Message edited by author 2008-05-18 08:39:25. |
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05/18/2008 10:19:59 AM · #8 |
What do they do with the images submitted to them? Do they store them?
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05/18/2008 10:24:12 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by Rgarcia:
What do they do with the images submitted to them? Do they store them? |
I imagine the answer is much like "what does Google do with web pages submitted to it." It indexes them. It runs is algorithmic magic so that very fast searches can be done. The only thing I can find in their FAQ is:
"To date, TinEye has indexed 486,637,255 images from the web. TinEye crawls new images from the web on a regular basis, so this number is always increasing."
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05/18/2008 12:03:27 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by strangeghost:
"To date, TinEye has indexed 486,637,255 images from the web. TinEye crawls new images from the web on a regular basis, so this number is always increasing." |
I got my "acceptance" yesterday- they like me they really like me!!!- anyway, last night when I started playing with Tineye they said 485 million images, my most recent search said 488 million images. Man, am I bored today.
Message edited by author 2008-05-18 12:04:06.
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05/18/2008 12:53:09 PM · #11 |
Wait until they start crawling flickr.
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05/18/2008 01:51:10 PM · #12 |
| Got my approval this morning... played around a little, and installed the Firefox plugin. I think it has tremendous potential if they do get a large fraction of the web's images indexed. |
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05/18/2008 03:26:48 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by gloda:
Wait until they start crawling flickr. |
I got my first flickr hit a few hours ago.
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05/18/2008 03:40:01 PM · #14 |
Just signed up, this thing is great!!! I just run a search on my zombie image (the version from the tutorial) and it bought up LOADS of hits. It seems a lot of people are using it for their Avatar on various sites.. this is my favourite version..
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05/18/2008 08:12:26 PM · #15 |
| Just think of those royalties you're missing, Simms! ;-) |
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05/18/2008 08:18:55 PM · #16 |
| Got approval today...interesting site, has potential. |
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05/18/2008 08:50:36 PM · #17 |
Apparently nobody is stealing my images... I don't know whether to be relieved or pissed...
R. |
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05/18/2008 10:13:08 PM · #18 |
| im sure there was a time when google didnt show every site that had "midget porn" on it durring its early stages, so it may take a while till joe schmos photowebsite to show up on there |
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05/21/2008 09:15:34 AM · #19 |
| Cool. It would be fun to find out where my (very few) stock images are being used online. ;-Þ |
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05/21/2008 09:21:56 AM · #20 |
just found one of my images on a french blog. i thanked him and politely asked for a credit and link - he did it in hours.
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05/21/2008 09:37:21 AM · #21 |
| Found my original Tooth fairy shot on a russian site with the heads replaced and an Iranian site. It's probably not safe for me to travel to Iran now. |
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05/21/2008 10:20:28 AM · #22 |
Originally posted by TinEye website:
Thanks for your request! You are now on our private beta waiting list. |
Almost sounds like 'double secret probation' (Animal House). No toga party for me! :-( |
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05/21/2008 10:24:08 AM · #23 |
Originally posted by Telehubbie:
Originally posted by TinEye website:
Thanks for your request! You are now on our private beta waiting list. |
Almost sounds like 'double secret probation' (Animal House). No toga party for me! :-( |
I was on the beta waiting list for less than two hours ... |
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05/21/2008 10:27:11 AM · #24 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
I was on the beta waiting list for less than two hours ... |
Thanks. I was thinking it would be a few weeks or so.
edit: Just got it in 11 minutes! They must've heard me talkin'!
Message edited by author 2008-05-21 10:35:26. |
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05/21/2008 10:50:32 AM · #25 |
| I think they are just checking to see if people are serious enough to be willing to wait ... |
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