What is TinEye? TinEye Review

introduce

TinEye currently supports the following image formats: JPEG, PNG and GIF.

Image file size limit: 1 megabyte maximum file size.

use

1. Simply copy and paste the webpage or image URL into the search box. After submitting the image in the above way, Tineye will search for similar images.

2. TinEye also provides plug-ins and bookmark script buttons for IE, Chrome, Firefox and other browsers. After installing the TinEye plug-in, users can right-click on images on the web page in the browser to search.

Another service worth mentioning about TinEye is that it provides a search API, namely TinEye Search API. This API is charged by the number of searches. Through the API it provides, you can integrate the image reverse search function into your website. In a search API call, it will return the total number of search results, the URL address of each matching image, the URL address of the page where each matching image is located, etc. Search API is generally used by some commercial companies or organizations, mainly used in image copyright ownership determination, personnel information verification, trademark monitoring, image tracking and content uniqueness determination.

TinEye Main Application

1. Discover the source of the picture and related information;

2. Research and track the spread of image information on the Internet;

3. Find a high-resolution version of the image.

4. Find a web page with your photo;

5. Look at the different versions of this picture.

develop

Idée launched TinEye on May 6, 2008, and entered public beta in August of that year. TinEye is the first web-based image search engine that uses image recognition technology.

As of July 18, 2012, the company claims that its database contains 2 billion images.

In June 2014, TinEye claimed to have indexed over 5 billion images for comparison.

As of October 2015, TinEye's search results claim to have over 13 billion images indexed for comparison.

References

• 1. Use pictures to find pictures - similar picture search engine Tineye: Love sharing [reference date 2009-11-23T16:00:00.000Z]