TinEye: Image Search
September 5, 2008
A happy quack to the reader who tipped me about TinEye, a search system that purports to do for images what the GOOG did for test.” The story about TinEye that I saw appeared in the UK computer news service PCPro.co.uk. The story “Visual Search Engine Is Photographer’s Best Friend” is here. The visual search engine was developed by Idée, based in Toronto. The company says:
TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology. Given an image to search for, TinEye tells you where and how that image appears all over the web—even if it has been modified.
The image index contains about one billion images. Search options include uploading an image for the system to pattern match, an image url, or via a plug in for Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Search results are displayed graphically. You can explore the images with a mouse click. One interface appears below:
The technology powering the service is Espion. I couldn’t locate a public demonstration of the service. You can request a demonstration of the system here. Toronto is becoming a hot bed of search activity. Arikus and Sprylogics both operate there. OpenText has an office. Coveo is present. I will add this outfit to my list of Canadian vendors.
Stephen Arnold, September 5, 2008
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