Useful Tools: Reverse Image Search by TinEye
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. According to TinEye, it is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. TinEye says they are currently indexing only a small percentage of the images on the web right now – about 500 million – but has plans to expand their index soon. I don’t think I have to tell you that TinEye’s service could be very useful.
The technology behind TinEye is not unlike that employed by Anvato which allows IP owners to reverse search the web for their own videos. Like TinEye, Anvato “views” videos the way the human eye does, without relying on keywords, watermarks, or metadata embedded in videos.
Disclosure: Anvato is a client of DIME PR.
