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TinEye Image Search
November 9th, 2008
TinEye isn’t really an image search engine — it’s not particularly useful if you’re looking for pictures of some a subject like puffins or the Brooklyn Bridge, or if you’re looking for pictures of a particular person, like Millard Fillmore. TinEye is designed for a totally different purpose. You show it a picture, it analyzes it and then looks in its index for other copies of the same picture. It’s supposed to be able to find other versions, even if they have been cropped or altered.
Here’s an example of one of my Flickr photographs. TinEye has correctly identified a copy of this posted with permission by Schmap:
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