Reverse Image Search

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TinEye - Find Copies of Images on the Web

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. It is free to use for non-commercial searching.

Testing TinEye

TinEye

To test out TinEye I used a stock photo image that I had licensed from istockphoto.com. I assumed that this image could easily be found on more than one site and TinEye came back with 22 results. Obviously I have no proof that it found all occurrences of this image - but a good example of how TinEye works.

More than Just Exact Matches

TinEye

Searching for this "classic" photo of Taylor Swift being interrupted shows the power of TinEye as it does not only find exact matches, but the many permutations of this photo.

How does TinEye's reverse image search work?

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. TinEye regularly crawls the web for new images, and we also accept contributions of complete online image collections. To date, there are 1,462,555,247 images in our image database.

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. Our 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.



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Tineye.com - A Reverse Image Search Engine

TinEye essentially creates a "fingerprint" for the picture and then compares it with over a billion other images in its index to attain matches. It's like a Google image search except you use pictures instead of text.

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  • Deadicated Apr 26, 2012 @ 2:04 am | delete
    Wow, I didn't know you could do this; thanks for sharing, cool.
  • makingamark Sep 19, 2010 @ 5:15 am | delete
    Thanks - another site I like whose name I always forget! Also being lensrolled so I can find it again!

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