Comments on: TinEye.com – search for image copies and derivatives

By: Gazopa – search for images by similarity or keywords | Rarst.net

Gazopa – search for images by similarity or keywords | Rarst.net — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:03:57 +0000

[...] you have one tool that does fine job it is hard to choose right moment to try out alternatives. TinEye worked fine for me, so pitch from Hideki Kobayashi (project leader) about GazoPa gathered dust [...]

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:03:10 +0000

@DataRat

Well, I did poke Similar Images. Google’s database is more massive but TinEye is MUCH more precise.

Google serves matches that are roughly similar in colors and shapes, TinEye snipers images that contain exactly same elements.

By: The DataRat

The DataRat — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:11:16 +0000

This would to reproduce Google Lab’s “Similar Images”. For a take on
that…

http://www.betanews.com/article/How-useful-is-Googles-Similar-Images/1256943128

The DataRat

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:28:17 +0000

@Robert

More of stash than find. :) I need to push on processing my bookmarks for blog posts a bit.

@Lyndi

Nope, query images are not added to database for privacy reason. Only crawled stuff gets in there, but you can submit sites to crawl.

Their commercial products seem to be aimed exactly at clients like photographers, stock photo sites, etc.

By: Lyndi

Lyndi — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:46:08 +0000

This is amazing. I had no idea that something like this was even possible. I would assume the app will keep adding to its database, in other words if it finds no matches to a picture it will add that picture to its database. I can just see all those guys who sell photos on the Net doing thousands of these searches.

By: Robert Palmar

Robert Palmar — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:36:33 +0000

Neat niche search.
This will save time when
such searches are ever done.

Bookmarklet is handy too. Great find.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:53:44 +0000

@Noah

Well, as post mentions this seems to be simple spin off by company that has solid commercial projects. :) Free and awesome tools are really nice way to get your services out.

By: Noah

Noah — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:50:42 +0000

I would like to know who had enough time to develop that for free use by people; it’s quite a achievement. I mean, I’m building a system with my cousin, but that’s not going to be free, and it’s taking a while to make. But for sure not in our free time xD